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UAI
1998
15 years 1 months ago
Inferring Informational Goals from Free-Text Queries: A Bayesian Approach
People using consumer software applications typically do not use technical jargon when querying an online database of help topics. Rather, they attempt to communicate their goals ...
David Heckerman, Eric Horvitz
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EXPERT
2008
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15 years 15 days ago
Behavioral Inference across Cultures: Using Telephones as a Cultural Lens
Abstract. The majority of humans today carry mobile telephones. These phones automatically capture behavioral data from virtually every human society, stored in service provider da...
Nathan Eagle
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AI
2006
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
An Improved LAZY-AR Approach to Bayesian Network Inference
We propose LAZY arc-reversal with variable elimination (LAZY-ARVE) as a new approach to probabilistic inference in Bayesian networks (BNs). LAZY-ARVE is an improvement upon LAZY ar...
Cory J. Butz, Shan Hua
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AAAI
2008
15 years 2 months ago
Latent Tree Models and Approximate Inference in Bayesian Networks
We propose a novel method for approximate inference in Bayesian networks (BNs). The idea is to sample data from a BN, learn a latent tree model (LTM) from the data offline, and wh...
Yi Wang, Nevin Lianwen Zhang, Tao Chen
ESANN
2004
15 years 1 months ago
Robust Bayesian Mixture Modelling
Abstract. Bayesian approaches to density estimation and clustering using mixture distributions allow the automatic determination of the number of components in the mixture. Previou...
Christopher M. Bishop, Markus Svensén