Abstract
This patent application is assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos , California, UnitedStates).The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied bythe inventors: ““Field“Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to machine learning and, more particularly,to a system for inferring thoughts and a process through which a human generated labels for a codingscheme.“Background“Coding unstructured content (e.g., text, images, etc.) with labels is used in m any different applications,and is a vital part for qualitative data analysis. C oding unstructured content generally involveshumans for naming objects in image s, identifying sounds in audio clips, detecting activities in video clips,and t he like. Unfortunately, such conventional techniques are severely limited in tha t they ignore a greatdeal of human behavior and other such variables, such as u ncertainties of human conduct, preferences,biases, and the like. In particular, relying on humans in the loop for coding results in the definitions oflabels, which by their nature are very subjective. A large part of the subjectiveness is due to the differencesof how people interpret the context based on their biase s, expectations, etc., and how people take that intheir thinking process.
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