Using wittgenstein’s family resemblance principle to learn exemplars

The introduction of the notion of family resemblance represented a major shift in Wittgenstein’s thoughts on the meaning of words, moving away from a belief that words were well defined, to a view that words denoted less well defined categories of meaning. This paper presents the use of the notion o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: ANDRES FLORENCIO RODRIGUEZ MARTINEZ, LUIS ENRIQUE SUCAR SUCCAR, Jia Wu
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:México
Institución:Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica
Repositorio:Repositorio Institucional del INAOE
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx:1009/1043
Acceso en línea:http://inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1009/1043
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:info:eu-repo/classification/Machine learning/Machine learning
info:eu-repo/classification/Family resemblance/Family resemblance
info:eu-repo/classification/Bayesian networks/Bayesian networks
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/1
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/12
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/1203
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Sumario:The introduction of the notion of family resemblance represented a major shift in Wittgenstein’s thoughts on the meaning of words, moving away from a belief that words were well defined, to a view that words denoted less well defined categories of meaning. This paper presents the use of the notion of family resemblance in the area of machine learning as an example of the benefits that can accrue from adopting the kind of paradigm shift taken by Wittgenstein. The paper presents a model capable of learning exemplars using the principle of family resemblance and adopting Bayesian networks for a representation of exemplars. An empirical evaluation is presented on three data sets and shows promising results that suggest that previous assumptions about the way we categories need reopening.