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Improving Semantic Embedding Consistency by Metric Learning for Zero-Shot Classification
This paper addresses the task of zero-shot image classification. The key
contribution of the proposed approach is to control the semantic embedding of
images -- one of the main ingredients of zero-shot learning -- by formulating
it as a metric learning problem. The optimized empirical criterion associates
two types of sub-task constraints: metric discriminating capacity and accurate
attribute prediction. This results in a novel expression of zero-shot learning
not requiring the notion of class in the training phase: only pairs of
image/attributes, augmented with a consistency indicator, are given as ground
truth. At test time, the learned model can predict the consistency of a test
image with a given set of attributes , allowing flexible ways to produce
recognition inferences. Despite its simplicity, the proposed approach gives
state-of-the-art results on four challenging datasets used for zero-shot
recognition evaluation.Comment: in ECCV 2016, Oct 2016, amsterdam, Netherlands. 201
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Knowledge representation for basic visual categories
This paper reports work on a model of machine learning which is based on the psychological theory of prototypical concepts. This theory is that concepts learnt naturally from interaction with the environment (basic categories) are not structured or defined in logical terms but are clustered in accordance with their similarity to a central prototype, representing the "most typical'' member
Towards a Universal Wordnet by Learning from Combined Evidenc
Lexical databases are invaluable sources of knowledge about words and their meanings, with numerous applications in areas like NLP, IR, and AI. We propose a methodology for the automatic construction of a large-scale multilingual lexical database where words of many languages are hierarchically organized in terms of their meanings and their semantic relations to other words. This resource is bootstrapped from WordNet, a well-known English-language resource. Our approach extends WordNet with around 1.5 million meaning links for 800,000 words in over 200 languages, drawing on evidence extracted from a variety of resources including existing (monolingual) wordnets, (mostly bilingual) translation dictionaries, and parallel corpora. Graph-based scoring functions and statistical learning techniques are used to iteratively integrate this information and build an output graph. Experiments show that this wordnet has a high level of precision and coverage, and that it can be useful in applied tasks such as cross-lingual text classification
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