An adaptive function neural network(ADFUNN) for phrase recognition
Miao Kang, Dominic Palmer-Brown · Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2005. · 2006
We describe an adaptive function neural network (ADFUNN) by the authors (2005), and apply it to the natural language processing task of phrase recognition. ADFUNN is based on a linear piecewise neuron activation function that is modified by a novel gradient descent supervised learning algorithm. Linearly inseparable problems can he learned with ADFUNN, rapidly and without hidden neurons. We perform phrase recognition on a set of phrases from the Lancaster parsed corpus (LPC) by R. Garside, et al. (1987). Generalisation rises to 100% with 150 training patterns (out of a total of 254).