Lev Goldfarb,
ICPR, Aug. 2004
The
currently prevalent wisdom in our field
• The main (subconscious?) postulate: Completely rely on statistical models (and, therefore, on the vector space
formalism).
• In accordance with the above postulate,
expect that there exist some
new, statistically “profound” models/algorithms that would do a satisfactory job.
• Innovative, by taking an apparently structural representation, convert it to a numeric one (to “tame” its structural
elements), and reduce the
problem to the more familiar statistical setting (in the process, misleading yourself and others that one is
actually dealing with the
structural representation).