... techniques.AcknowledgmentsWe thank Tom Minka and Jerod Weinman for helpful conversations, and we thankFrancine Chen and Benson Limketkai for useful comments. This work was supportedin part by the Center for Intelligent ... this chapter. We denote an assignment to X by x, and we denote an assignment to a set A ⊂ X by xA, and similarly for Y . We use the notation1{x=x} to denote an indicator function of x which ... 2005, Sha and Pereira,2003], bioinformatics [Sato and Sakakibara, 2005, Liu et al., 2005], and computervision [He et al., 2004, Kumar and Hebert, 2003].This chapter is divided into two parts....