Embracing Relational Abundance

Embracing Data Abundance

There is a practically unlimited amount of natural language data available. Still, recent work in text comprehension has focused on datasets which are small relative to current computing possibilities. This article is making a case for the community to move to larger data and is offering the BookTest dataset as a step in that direction.

Embracing relational agency in design process

Abstract Our research investigates how the design process can accommodate a relational view of agency. According to the relational view, agency or capacities of action is neither an attribute of subjects nor of objects. The relational view of agency in design may allow designers to recognize and support the diversity and richness involved in human agency. To this end, we developed six design qu...

Embracing data abundance: BookTest Dataset for Reading Comprehension

There is a practically unlimited amount of natural language data available. Still, recent work in text comprehension has focused on datasets which are small relative to current computing possibilities. This article is making a case for the community to move to larger data and as a step in that direction it is proposing the BookTest, a new dataset similar to the popular Children’s Book Test (CBT...

An Extended Local Connectionist Manifesto: Embracing Relational and Procedural Knowledge

The author has performed an important service by dispelling several myths and misconceptions concerning the localist approach. The localist position and computational model presented in the target article, however, are overly restrictive and do not address the representation of complex conceptual items such as events, situations, actions, and plans. Working toward the representation of such ite...

Embracing Changes