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LORI
2009
Springer
16 years 25 days ago
Dynamic Testimonial Logic
We propose a dynamic testimonial logic (DTL) to model communication and belief change among agents with different dispositions to trust each other as information sources. DTL is ...
Wesley H. Holliday
JCB
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Statistical Estimation of Statistical Mechanical Models: Helix-Coil Theory and Peptide Helicity Prediction
Analysis of biopolymer sequences and structures generally adopts one of two approaches: use of detailed biophysical theoretical models of the system with experimentally-determined...
Scott C. Schmidler, Joseph E. Lucas, Terrence G. O...
JMLR
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Noise-Contrastive Estimation of Unnormalized Statistical Models, with Applications to Natural Image Statistics
We consider the task of estimating, from observed data, a probabilistic model that is parameterized by a finite number of parameters. In particular, we are considering the situat...
Michael Gutmann, Aapo Hyvärinen
AIED
2009
Springer
16 years 26 days ago
Will Google destroy western democracy? Bias in policy problem solving
: Democracy requires students to choose policy positions based on evidence, yet confirmation bias prevents them from doing so. As a preliminary step in building a policy reasoning ...
Matthew W. Easterday, Vincent Aleven, Richard Sche...
MICCAI
2009
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
Building Shape Models from Lousy Data
Statistical shape models have gained widespread use in medical image analysis. In order for such models to be statistically meaningful, a large number of data sets have to be inclu...
Marcel Lüthi, Thomas Albrecht, Thomas Vetter