We study graphical modeling in the case of stringvalued random variables. Whereas a weighted finite-state transducer can model the probabilistic relationship between two strings, ...
A recurrent question in the design of intelligent agents is how to assign degrees of beliefs, or subjective probabilities, to various events in a relational environment. In the sta...
Inspired by AND/OR search spaces for graphical models recently introduced, we propose to augment Multi-Valued Decision Diagrams (MDD) with AND nodes, in order to capture function ...
Robert Mateescu, Rina Dechter, Radu Marinescu 0002
In this paper, we address the tasks of detecting, segmenting, parsing, and matching deformable objects. We use a novel probabilistic object model that we call a hierarchical defor...
Entity resolution is the problem of determining which records in a database refer to the same entities, and is a crucial and expensive step in the data mining process. Interest in...