... Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT8).D. Chiang, J. Graehl, K. Knight, A. Pauls, and S. Ravi.2010. Bayesian inference for Finite- State transduc-ers. In Proceedings of the North American Associa-tion ... non-convex optimization prob-lem for which we invoke a publicly availableconstrained optimization tool, ALGENCAN (An- dreani et al., 2007). To carry out its optimization, ALGENCAN requires ... muchsmaller models than EM, and produces Viterbitaggings with many fewer tag-bigram types.3.2 Italian POS taggingWe also carried out POS tagging experiments on an Italian corpus from the Italian Turin...