Re: [cmunell] Character Traits

[Bryan Kisiel]

Hi Malikye,

Thanks for the heads up. This looks like a clear case where NELL got some
idea in its head (any "quality ______" must be a character trait), ran
with it, and now is too far gone to listen to human feedback. This is one
of the things I'd most like to see NELL do a better job of in 2013.

Incidently, we've been making some infrastructrual changes over the last
few months that should give NELL a better ability to change its mind, and
it so happens that it's already in the process of kicking out 96 "quality
_____" beliefs from charactertrait as of this morning. Unfortunately
there are about 5000 more to go after that... If the tables don't start
to turn in another week or so I'll blow them all away manually as an
experiment, and then at least we can confirm that NELL won't re-learn them
a second time.

bki...@cs.cmu.edu


On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, Malikye wrote:

> Under "character traits", NELL has classified many things that aren't
> character traits, such as, "quality book", "quality clothing", "quality
> equipment", the list goes on. These things in and of themselves are not
> character traits by the definition *habitual patterns of behavior, thought,
> and emotion*, in fact, the word "quality" itself doesn't define as a
> character trait, rather it defines as a physical characteristic. So NELL
> has an unending number of "character traits" that fit the format "quality
> ______". I just thought I would take it upon myself to notify you of this
> mistake.
>