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Theory and Application of Concept Learning

MIT2002-01

Start date: 07/2002

Joshua Tennenbaum
MIT

Naonori Ueda
NTT

Project summary


Our project has two threads:

Project description


 

Two specific questions drive this research program.

  • First, how do people -- and how can computers -- combine unsupervised and supervised approaches to concept learning, using unsupervised learning to build better hypothesis spaces for supervised concept learning?
  • Second, what is the large-scale structure of human semantic concepts in natural language, and how can this structure be learned – by either people or machines -- from large text or hypertext corpora?

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NTT Bi-Annual Progress Report, July to December 2002:

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