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JMLR
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Causal Reasoning with Ancestral Graphs
Causal reasoning is primarily concerned with what would happen to a system under external interventions. In particular, we are often interested in predicting the probability distr...
Jiji Zhang
IJUFKS
2000
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14 years 9 months ago
A Factorized Representation of Independence of Causal Influence and Lazy Propagation
Theefficiency of algorithmsfor probabilistic inference in Bayesian networks can be improvedby exploiting independenceof causal influence. Thefactorized representation of independe...
Anders L. Madsen, Bruce D'Ambrosio
NIPS
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Semi-Markov Conditional Random Fields for Information Extraction
We describe semi-Markov conditional random fields (semi-CRFs), a conditionally trained version of semi-Markov chains. Intuitively, a semiCRF on an input sequence x outputs a "...
Sunita Sarawagi, William W. Cohen
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
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14 years 17 days ago
Hybrid in-database inference for declarative information extraction
In the database community, work on information extraction (IE) has centered on two themes: how to effectively manage IE tasks, and how to manage the uncertainties that arise in th...
Daisy Zhe Wang, Michael J. Franklin, Minos N. Garo...
VLDB
1998
ACM
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15 years 1 months ago
Scalable Techniques for Mining Causal Structures
Mining for association rules in market basket data has proved a fruitful areaof research. Measures such as conditional probability (confidence) and correlation have been used to i...
Craig Silverstein, Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani, Je...