Local soft belief updating for relational classification

  • Authors:
  • Guoli Ding;R. F. Lax;Jianhua Chen;Peter Chen;Brian D. Marx

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Mathematics, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA;Dept. of Mathematics, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA;Dept. of Computer Science, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA;Dept. of Computer Science, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA;Dept. of Experimental Statistics, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA

  • Venue:
  • ISMIS'08 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Foundations of intelligent systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We introduce local soft belief updating, a new heuristic for taking into account relations that exist between entities in a database. Our idea applies Pearl's belief updating, but only in the first-order neighborhood of each node, thus avoiding any problems with loops. We apply our method to a classification problem using a subset of the Cora database of computer science articles, with Cora's citation graph giving the relations between entities.