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HYPERSPECIFICITE [1 record]

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Record 1 1989-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Continuing Education
CONT

Overspecificity can create impasses by making matches impossible: the learner is biased to find the maximally specific conditions when retrieving an object. An example of overspecificity is a student who thinks that one must borrow from a column that is both adjacent to the current one and the leftmost because all examples so far were two-column problems. If borrowing is required when there is more than one column left to do, an impasse is generated.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Éducation permanente
OBS

Néologisme construit par analogie à hypercorrect et hyperémotivité.

Spanish

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