Human Reading and the Curse of Dimensionality

Abstract

Whereas optical character recognition (OCR) systems learn to clas(cid:173) sify single characters; people learn to classify long character strings in parallel, within a single fixation . This difference is surprising because high dimensionality is associated with poor classification learning. This paper suggests that the human reading system avoids these problems because the number of to-be-classified im(cid:173) ages is reduced by consistent and optimal eye fixation positions, and by character sequence regularities.

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Text

Martin. "Human Reading and the Curse of Dimensionality." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1995.

Markdown

[Martin. "Human Reading and the Curse of Dimensionality." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1995.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1995/martin1995neurips-human/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{martin1995neurips-human,
  title     = {{Human Reading and the Curse of Dimensionality}},
  author    = {Martin, Gale},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {1995},
  pages     = {17-23},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1995/martin1995neurips-human/}
}