@InProceedings{FrancescoCiompi2010, author="Francesco Ciompi and Oriol Pujol and Petia Radeva", title="A meta-learning approach to Conditional Random Fields using Error-Correcting Output Codes", booktitle="20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition", year="2010", pages="710--713", abstract="We present a meta-learning framework for the design of potential functions for Conditional Random Fields. The design of both node potential and edge potential is formulated as a classification problem where margin classifiers are used. The set of state transitions for the edge potential is treated as a set of different classes, thus defining a multi-class learning problem. The Error-Correcting Output Codes (ECOC) technique is used to deal with the multi-class problem. Furthermore, the point defined by the combination of margin classifiers in the ECOC space is interpreted in a probabilistic manner, and the obtained distance values are then converted into potential values. The proposed model exhibits very promising results when applied to two real detection problems.", optnote="MILAB;HUPBA", optnote="exported from refbase (http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/show.php?record=1365), last updated on Thu, 18 Jan 2018 12:00:12 +0100", isbn="978-1-4244-7542-1", issn="1051-4651", doi="10.1109/ICPR.2010.179" }