One piece at a time: Learning complex rules through self-directed sampling

Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 725-730

  Markant, Doug ^a   Gureckis, Todd M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

active learning; categorization; information search; rule learning; self directed learning

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; CATEGORIZATION; CONCEPT ACQUISITIONS; DIRECTED INFORMATION; INFORMATION SAMPLINGS; INFORMATION SEARCH; RULE LEARNING; SELF-DIRECTED; SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING; UNCERTAINTY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84886992877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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