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Fast and Scalable Training of Semi-Supervised CRFs with Application to Activity Recognition Maryam Mahdaviani Computer Science Department University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC Canada Tanzeem Choudhury Intel Research 1100 NE 45th Street Seattle, WA 98105 USA Abstract We present a new and efficient semi-supervised training method for parameter es- timation and feature selection in conditional random fields (CRFs). In real-world applications such as activity recognition, unlabeled sensor traces are relatively easy to obtain whereas labeled examples are expensive and tedious to collect. Fur