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Introduction to Statistical Relational Learning

·2007·The MIT Press eBooks

Abstract

Advanced statistical modeling and knowledge representation techniques for a newly emerging area of machine learning and probabilistic reasoning; includes introductory material, tutorials for different proposed approaches, and applications. Handling inherent uncertainty and exploiting compositional structure are fundamental to understanding and designing large-scale systems. Statistical relational learning builds on ideas from probability theory and statistics to address uncertainty while incorporating tools from logic, databases and programming languages to represent structure. In Introduction to Statistical Relational Learning, leading researchers in this emerging area of machine learning describe current formalisms, models, and algorithms that enable effective and robust reasoning about richly structured systems and data. The early chapters provide tutorials for material used in later chapters, offering introductions to representation, inference and learning in graphical 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 programs. Later chapters discuss such topics as probabilistic models with unknown objects, relational dependency networks, reinforcement learning in relational domains, and information extraction. By presenting a variety of approaches, the book highlights commonalities and clarifies important differences among proposed approaches and, along the way, identifies important representational and algorithmic issues. Numerous applications are provided throughout.

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The MIT Press eBooks
Publisher
The MIT Press
Published
2007-08-31
OpenAlex
W1585529040
Cited by
1,643
References
11
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 36 · 2023: 42 · 2022: 41 · 2021: 67 · 2020: 100 · 2019: 86 · 2018: 77 · 2017: 115 · 2016: 94 · 2015: 116 · 2014: 125 · 2013: 132 · 2012: 129
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book
Language
en
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closed
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Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization
Keywords
statistical relational learning, probabilistic relational models, Markov logic, information extraction, probabilistic graphical models, knowledge representation, uncertainty reasoning, object-oriented model

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