• DocumentCode
    927229
  • Title

    On summarizing data using probabilistic assertions

  • Author

    Pearl, Judea

  • Volume
    23
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1977
  • fDate
    7/1/1977 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    459
  • Lastpage
    465
  • Abstract
    The complexity of question-answering systems which are permitted to submit probabilistic estimates of the truth of certain propositions is considered. Bounds are derived on the expected memory space and computational work required to produce probabilistic estimates of a specified quality. The general features of the bounds are similar to those of question-answering systems constrained to true-false type answers.
  • Keywords
    Memories; Probability; Rate-distortion theory; Computational complexity; Data structures; Feature extraction; Helium; Laboratories; Mathematics; Multidimensional systems; Pattern recognition; Psychology; Rain;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.1977.1055756
  • Filename
    1055756