Fusion of natural language propositions: Bayesian random set framework

Fusion 2011 - 14th International Conference on Information Fusion

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bishop, Adrian N ^a   Ristic, Branko ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Information fusion; Natural language; Random set theory; Spatial prepositions

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC INFORMATION; BAYESIAN ESTIMATIONS; BAYESIAN FILTERS; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL FORMALISM; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORK; RANDOM SET; RANDOM SET THEORY; SPATIAL LOCATION; SPATIAL PREPOSITIONS; STATE SPACE;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFORMATION FUSION; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; SET THEORY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 80052532684     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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