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Rough Diamonds in Natural Language Learning

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Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT 2009)

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Machine Learning of Natural Language provides a rich environment for exploring supervised and unsupervised learning techniques including soft clustering and rough sets. This keynote presentation will trace the course of our Natural Language Learning as well as some quite intriguing spin-off applications. The focus of the paper will be learning, by both human and computer, reinterpreting our work of the last 30 years [1-12,20-24] in terms of recent developments in Rough Sets.

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  1. AI Lab, School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, 5042

    David M. W. Powers & Richard Leibbrandt

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  1. Faculty of Engineering and Surveying and Engineering, University of Southern Queensland, QLD 4350, Australia

    Peng Wen

  2. School of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology, QLD 4001, Brisbane, Australia

    Yuefeng Li

  3. Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 86, 02008, Warsaw, Poland

    Lech Polkowski

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, S4S 0A2, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

    Yiyu Yao

  5. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Informatics, Shimane University, 89-1 Enya-cho, Izumo, 693-8501, Shimane, Japan

    Shusaku Tsumoto

  6. Institute of Computer Science and Technology, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China

    Guoyin Wang

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Powers, D.M.W., Leibbrandt, R. (2009). Rough Diamonds in Natural Language Learning. In: Wen, P., Li, Y., Polkowski, L., Yao, Y., Tsumoto, S., Wang, G. (eds) Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology. RSKT 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5589. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02962-2_2

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