FACTORIE: Probabilistic programming via imperatively defined factor graphs

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1249-1257

  McCallum, Andrew ^a   Schultz, Karl ^a   Singh, Sameer ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CIRCUITS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; FORMAL LOGIC; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

DECLARATIVE LANGUAGES; FACTOR GRAPHS; FIRST ORDER LOGIC; GRAPHICAL MODEL; IMPERATIVE LANGUAGES; MODEL LEARNING; POWER; PROBABILISTIC PROGRAMMING; RELATIONAL DATA; RELATIONAL MODELING;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84863338363     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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