1. About summer seminar Discriminative vs. generative learning

2. Summer Seminar Information Schedule, slides, and related information relocated at: URL: http://enpub.eas.asu.edu/csemlhttp://enpub.eas.asu.edu/cseml Group meeting password protected Newsgroup: asuml@googlegroups.com, Want to join? E-mail shuiwang.ji@asu.eduasuml@googlegroups.comshuiwang.ji@asu.edu

3. Preliminary Summer Schedule 05/31/2007: Hidden Markov Models by Zheng Zhao 06/05/2007 and 06/07/2007 : TBA 06/12/2007 and 06/14/2007: ICML’07 papers 06/26/2007--: Structured learning, Embryonic biology, ICML’07 papers, etc. E-mail slides to shuiwang.ji@gmail.com at least one day before presentation.shuiwang.ji@gmail.com

4. Generative vs. Discriminative Learning Shuiwang Ji

14. HMM vs. CRF Naïve Bayes Logistic regression HMM CRF

17. Additional readings An Introduction to Conditional Random Fields for Relational Learning (http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum/pap ers/crf-tutorial.pdf )http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum/pap ers/crf-tutorial.pdf