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Self‐Directed Learning Favors Local, Rather Than Global, Uncertainty

2015 · Cognitive Science

Collecting (or "sampling") information that one expects to be useful is a powerful way to facilitate learning. However, relatively little is known about how people decide which information is worth sampling over the course of …

A Trainable Spaced Repetition Model for Language Learning

2016

We present half-life regression (HLR), a novel model for spaced repetition practice with applications to second language acquisition. HLR combines psycholinguistic theory with modern machine learning techniques, indirectly estimating the "halflife" of a word or …