Learn, do and apply

When and where do we apply what we learn? A taxonomy for far transfer.

Despite a century's worth of research, arguments surrounding the question of whether far transfer occurs have made little progress toward resolution. The authors argue the reason for this confusion is a failure to specify various dimensions along which transfer can occur, resulting in comparisons of "apples and oranges." They provide a framework that describes 9 relevant dimensions and show tha...

To Learn or Not do Learn

Learn - Filter - Apply - Forget. Mixed Approaches to Named Entity Recognition

We have explored and implemented different approaches to named entity recognition in German, a difficult task in this language since both regular nouns and proper names are capitalized. Our goal is to identify and recognise person names, geographical names and company names in a computer magazine corpus. Our geographical name classifier works with precompiled lists but our company name classifi...

Do Convnets Learn Correspondence?

Convolutional neural nets (convnets) trained from massive labeled datasets [1] have substantially improved the state-of-the-art in image classification [2] and object detection [3]. However, visual understanding requires establishing correspondence on a finer level than object category. Given their large pooling regions and training from whole-image labels, it is not clear that convnets derive ...

Do We Know and Apply the Principles of Academic Authorship?