Hidden Markov Model for Part-of-Speech Tagging Tasks
Dec 1, 2025
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Literature review and application of Hidden Markov Model methods to the Penn Treebank dataset for STATS 230: Statistical Computing Methods.
Tools Used: Python, R
Authors
PhD Candidate in Statistics
Spencer Hilligoss is a PhD candidate in Statistics at the University of California, Irvine,
advised by Dr. Annie Qu and Dr. Tianchen Qian. His research develops methods for causal
mediation analysis, representation learning, and generative modeling of complex time series,
with applications spanning personalized medicine, mobile health, and financial data. His
work on causal mediation in continuous glucose monitoring was recently published in
npj Metabolic Health and Disease.