The Role of Context in Concept Learning
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Many practical, real-life applications of concept learning are impossible to address without taking into consideration the background of the concept, its frame of reference, and the particual situation and circumstances of its occurence, shortly its context. Even though the phenomenon of context has been treated by philosophers and cognitive scientists , it deserves more attention in the machine-learning community.
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تاریخ انتشار 1996