@INPROCEEDINGS{liu2014, author={Liu, Tingting and Lemeire, Jan}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th European Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS-2014)}, title={Effective and Efficient Identification of Persistent-state Hidden (semi-) Markov Models}, year={2014}, month={August}, pages={171-180}, keywords={hidden Markov models (HMMs), hidden semi-Markov models (HSMMs), Baum-Welch, local optima, model identification}, doi={10.3233/978-1-61499-421-3-171}