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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Albalate, Amparo.

Semi-supervised and unsupervised machine learning / Amparo Albalate, Wolfgang Minker.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-84821-203-9 (hardback)

1. Data mining. 2. Discourse analysis--Statistical methods. 3. Speech processing systems. 4. Computational intelligence. I. Minker, Wolfgang. II. Title.

QA76.9.D343A3393 2011

006.3--dc22

2010040730

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

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ISBN 978-1-84821-203-9