EDITED BY LISE GETOOR AND BEN TASKAR
STATISTICAL RELATIONAL LEARNING
INTRODUCTION TO
INTRODUCTION TO
STATISTICAL RELATIONAL
LEARNING
EDITED BY
LISE GETOOR AND BEN TASKAR
Handling inherent uncertainty and exploiting
compositional structure are fundamental to under-
standing and designing large-scale systems.
Statistical relational learning builds on ideas from
probability theory and statistics to address uncer-
tainty while incorporating tools from logic, data-
bases, and programming languages to represent
structure. In
Introduction to Statistical Relational
Learning,
leading researchers in this emerging
area of machine learning describe current for-
malisms, models, and algorithms that enable
effective and robust reasoning about richly struc-
tured systems and data.
The early chapters provide tutorials for mate-
rial used in later chapters, offering introductions
to representation, inference and learning in graph-
ical models, and logic. The book then describes
object-oriented approaches, including probabilistic
relational models, relational Markov networks, and
probabilistic entity-relationship models as well as
logic-based formalisms including Bayesian logic
programs, Markov logic, and stochastic logic pro-
grams. Later chapters discuss such topics as
probabilistic models with unknown objects, rela-
tional dependency networks, reinforcement learn-
ing in relational domains, and information extraction.
By presenting a variety of approaches, the
book highlights commonalities and clarifies impor-
tant differences among proposed approaches and,
along the way, identifies important representational
and algorithmic issues. Numerous applications are
provided throughout.
INTRODUCTION TO
STATISTICAL RELATIONAL LEARNING
GETOOR AND TASKAR, EDITORS
Lise Getoor is Assistant Professor in the
Department of Computer Science at the
University of Maryland. Ben Taskar is Assistant
Professor in the Computer and Information
Science Department at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series
computer science/statistics
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