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CONCEPT FORMATION [4 records]

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Record 1 - external organization data 2006-02-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology Vocabulary
Universal entry(ies)
31.02.07 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

generation of concepts used to characterize a given collection of objects, events, or facts

OBS

concept formation: term and definition standardized by ISO/IEC [ISO/IEC 2382-31:1997].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - ISO/CEI JTC 1 Vocabulaire des technologies de l'information
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
31.02.07 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

création de concepts servant à caractériser une collection d'objets, d'événements ou de faits

OBS

formation de concept : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO/CEI [ISO/IEC 2382-31:1997].

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Education Theory and Methods
DEF

Mental process of abstracting and recombining certain qualities or characteristics of a number of ideas to produce a concept.

CONT

Concept formation is a classification activity that leads your students to use item characteristics for classification. It develops their abilities to observe items thoroughly and to make useful observations. It also helps them to discover methods of classification.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
DEF

Méthode qui exige le raisonnement critique; l'élève développe sa capacité à se rappeler les idées clés et à les distinguer entre elles, à voir les similitudes et à identifier les liens, à formuler des concepts et des généralisations, à expliquer comment il ou elle a organisé les données et à défendre son organisation.

OBS

Approches pédagogiques : Infrastructure pour la pratique de l'enseignement, ministère de l'Éducation de la Saskatchewan, 1993.

Spanish

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Record 3 1999-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit

Spanish

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Record 4 1997-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

A form of learning in which the learner generates concepts useful in characterizing a given collection of objects or facts or a subset of them.

CONT

The concept-formation program described by Winston in his thesis (Winston 1975) was a landmark development in this direction. It accepted as input a sequence of descriptions of complicated Blocks World configurations, each classified as a positive or negative instance of the concept to be learned. The output was a definition of an admissible relation for the concept.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Création de concepts servant à caractériser une collection d'objets, d'événements ou de faits.

OBS

genèse : manière dont une chose est formée.

Spanish

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