Working Towards Connectionist Modelling of Term Formation

  • Authors:
  • Peter Marshall;Zuhair Bandar

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Theory and Applications: Fuzzy Days
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

In recent years, there has been a conscious move away from rule based methods of term acquisition with research focusing on alternative machine learning approaches. This comes as a response to the difficulties of complete knowledge representation of term formation as a general set of rules. This paper is a continuation of our initial research into connectionist approaches to term recognition [13]. An extension to the Winner-take-all algorithm is proposed which uses exhaustive testing of weights to elucidate term and non-term forming clusters. This algorithm is applied to automatic term recognition. Initial experiments have shown improved results ranging between 1.31% and 5.86% after initial training.