Predicting Structured Data

by Gökhan Bakir (Editor), Thomas Hofmann, Bernhard Schölkopf

Machine learning develops intelligent computer systems that are able to generalize from previously seen examples. A new domain of machine learning, in which the prediction must satisfy the additional constraints found in structured data, poses one of machine learning's greatest challenges: learning functional dependencies between arbitrary input and output domains. This volume presents and analyzes the state of the art in machine learning algorithms and theory in this novel field. The contributors discuss applications as diverse as machine translation, document markup, computational biology, and information extraction, among others, providing a timely overview of an exciting field.

Contributors Yasemin Altun, Gokhan Bakir, Olivier Bousquet, Sumit Chopra, Corinna Cortes, Hal Daume III, Ofer Dekel, Zoubin Ghahramani, Raia Hadsell, Thomas Hofmann, Fu Jie Huang, Yann LeCun, Tobias Mann, Daniel Marcu, David McAllester, Mehryar Mohri, William Stafford Noble, Fernando Perez-Cruz, Massimiliano Pontil, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Juho Rousu, Craig Saunders, Bernhard Scholkopf, Matthias W. Seeger, Shai Shalev-Shwartz, John Shawe-Taylor, Yoram Singer, Alexander J. Smola, Sandor Szedmak, Ben Taskar, Ioannis Tsochantaridis, S.V.N Vishwanathan, Jason Weston."

Genres: Mathematics

348 pages, Hardcover

First published July 27, 2007

Reviews

[Michiel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book on structured output prediction. The introductory chapters and some of the latter ones gave some interesting and novel insights on kernel methods in general to me. I particularly liked the tutorial about energy models. Other chapters were somewhat too mathy and technical to bring their message across.

[Nick Black · Rating 4 out of 5]

A rigorous, comprehensive, succinct and even attractively-priced and -bound introduction to machine learning developments since 2000, with an informed focus on bioinformatic applications throughout. This fine job from MIT Press belongs on every researcher's bookshelf.