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Python: Real World Machine Learning
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Python: Real World Machine Learning

by Prateek Joshi, John Hearty, Bastiaan Sjardin, Luca Massaron, Alberto Boschetti
November 2016
Beginner to intermediate
941 pages
21h 55m
English
Packt Publishing
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Building Conditional Random Fields for sequential text data

The Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) are probabilistic models used to analyze structured data. They are frequently used to label and segment sequential data. CRFs are discriminative models as opposed to HMMs, which are generative models. CRFs are used extensively to analyze sequences, stocks, speech, words, and so on. In these models, given a particular labeled observation sequence, we define a conditional probability distribution over this sequence. This is in contrast with HMMs where we define a joint distribution over the label and the observed sequence.

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HMMs assume that the current output is statistically independent of the previous outputs. This is needed by HMMs to ensure ...

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