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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data

Halevy, Norvig and Pereira's 2009 essay arguing that simple models trained on very large amounts of web data beat elaborate hand-built models, and that meaning is better learned from use at scale than specified in advance.

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  • Semantic Web concept 1998 [src1][src2]
    Contrasts hand-annotated semantics, slow and hard to agree on, with relationships learned from web-scale data.

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