Estimating dependency structure as a hidden variable

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 584-590

  Meilǎ, Marina ^a   Jordan, Michael I ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS;

DEPENDENCE RELATIONSHIPS; DEPENDENCY STRUCTURES; DIRICHLET; HIDDEN VARIABLE; MINIMUM SPANNING TREES; PROBABILITY MODELING;

MIXTURES;

EID: 84898959728     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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