Given a model family and a set of unlabeled examples, one could either label specific examples or state general constraints--both provide information about the desired model. In g...
We present a novel Bayesian approach to the problem of value function estimation in continuous state spaces. We define a probabilistic generative model for the value function by i...
Probabilistic modelling of text data in the bagof-words representation has been dominated by directed graphical models such as pLSI, LDA, NMF, and discrete PCA. Recently, state of...
Sequence segmentation is a flexible and highly accurate mechanism for modeling several applications. Inference on segmentation models involves dynamic programming computations tha...
We present conditional random fields, a framework for building probabilistic models to segment and label sequence data. Conditional random fields offer several advantages over hid...
John D. Lafferty, Andrew McCallum, Fernando C. N. ...