Next Letter Prediction Task

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A Next Letter Prediction Task is a sequence classification task whose input is a letter string and whose output is a letter character (the next letter).



References

1990

  • Elman, Jeffrey L. “Finding structure in time." Cognitive science 14, no. 2 (1990): 179-211.
    • QUOTE: … The fact that there are subregularities (at the level of indi- vidual bit patterns) enables the network to make partial predictions, even in cases where the complete prediction is not possible. … The task at each point in time was to predict the next letter. …

1951

  • (Shannon, 1951) = Claude E. Shannon. (1951). “Prediction and Entropy of Printed English.” In: Bell System Technical Journal, 30(1).
    • QUOTE: … 1. The output symbol is a function of the present input (the predicted next letter when we … the discrepancy between the actual FN and the lower bound with ideal prediction (due to … of conditional probability) more than compensates for the failure of human subjects to predict in the ...