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Second-Order Belief Hidden Markov Models
Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are learning methods for pattern recognition. The
probabilistic HMMs have been one of the most used techniques based on the
Bayesian model. First-order probabilistic HMMs were adapted to the theory of
belief functions such that Bayesian probabilities were replaced with mass
functions. In this paper, we present a second-order Hidden Markov Model using
belief functions. Previous works in belief HMMs have been focused on the
first-order HMMs. We extend them to the second-order model