Brains, Meaning and Corpus Statistics
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Google Tech Talks March 27, 3009 ABSTRACT Presented by Tom M. Mitchell E. Fredkin Professor and Department Head Machine Learning Department Carnegie Mellon University How does the human brain represent meanings of words and pictures in terms of the underlying neural activity? This talk will present our research using machine learning method... Read more
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- -: Brains, Meaning and Corpus Statistics
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