Similarity-based acquisition of spatial categories
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A very natural approach to categorization is similaritybased clustering. We propose a visual representation which can be used with such a mechanism for the acquisition of spatial relation categories. We also show how supervision can be helpful in cases where basic similarity is low by proposing a learning mechanism which operates both in the presence and in the absence of words.
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