Lars Kai Hansen
Technical University of Denmark

Cognitive Component Analysis

Thursday 22nd of January 2009 at 12:00pm
508-20 Evans Hall

Among the exponentially many ways of grouping data, can we characterize the ways that make sense to a human?. Cognitive component analysis is defined as the process of unsupervised grouping of data such that the ensuing group structure is well-aligned with that resulting from human cognitive activity.

We present evidence that independent component analyses of abstract data such as text, social interactions, music, and speech provide cognitive components.
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