Jonathan A. Marshall (1994) Synonyms, Embedding, Segmentation, and the Banana Problem . Psycoloquy: 5(32) Pattern Recognition (5)
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Psycoloquy 5(32): Synonyms, Embedding, Segmentation, and the Banana Problem

SYNONYMS, EMBEDDING, SEGMENTATION, AND THE BANANA PROBLEM
Book review of Nigrin on Pattern Recognition

Jonathan A. Marshall
Department of Computer Science
CB 3175, Sitterson Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175, U.S.A.
Fax: 919-962-1799

marshall@cs.unc.edu

Abstract

Nigrin's Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (1993) presents several very interesting advances in neural network methods. The book is well written, self contained, and accessible both to experts in neural networks and to intelligent novices. It provides a brief but readily understandable introduction to self-organizing neural networks, including the ART networks. It then describes in depth Nigrin's own theories of self-organizing neural networks for pattern recognition. Nigrin's work addresses, in new ways, some fundamental questions, such as unsupervised context-sensitive segmentation of patterns in continuous input streams, fast but stable learning, and simultaneous learning of multiple patterns.

Keywords

clustering, embedded pattern recognition, neural networks, segmentation, synonym representation, translation invariance.

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