Wednesday, 11 November 2009

December 9: Conditional Random Fields

We will read the following paper:

J. Lafferty, A. McCallum and F. Pereira. Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic models for segmenting and labeling sequence data. Proc. 18th Int. Conf. on Machine Learning, 2001.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~pereira/papers/crf.pdf

In addition, if time permits, we will reread the previous CRF paper:

Charles Sutton, Andres McCallum. An Introduction to Conditional Random Fields for Relational Learning.
http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum/papers/crf-tutorial.pdf

November 25: cancelled

Martin, Matthias and Laura are teaching a ph.d. course in statistics on November 25, so we decided to cancel the meeting.