surfing the web

A machine-learning system that trains itself by surfing the web

December 8, 2016

And so it begins ... MIT researchers have designed a new machine-learning system that can learn by itself to extract text information for statistical analysis when available data is scarce. This new “information extraction” system turns machine learning on its head. It works like humans do. When we run out of data in a study (say, differentiating between fake and … more…