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What motivates people to invent phrases like "perceptual binarization" when googling "audio binary mask" literally gives you citations in the field that have be
by emcq 8y ago
What motivates people to invent phrases like "perceptual binarization" when googling "audio binary mask" literally gives you citations in the field that have been doing this for years?
For example, 2009 musical sound separation based on binary time frequency masking.
Or more recent stuff using deep learning. Also the field generally prefers ratio masks because they lead to better sounding output.
- zxcvvcxz 8y agoIf you look smart and inventive you appear higher social status. Helps nerds impress women I reckon.
- avian 8y agoI know from my own experience that it's possible to dig yourself quite deep into some niche research field without realizing that there's an existing body of knowledge about it. If you or nobody else in your research circle knows the right keywords to enter into search fields it's really easy to overlook piles of published papers. I want to say things were different back when we relied more on human librarians in searching for literature, but unfortunately history is full of cases where people independently discovered the same things as well.
- ska 8y agoMy approach to avoid this is always to try and find a recent and well written Masters or Ph.D thesis in the area. You can't always find them of course, but if you do they tend to have pretty good context and a more detailed bibliography than you'll find elsewhere. That said, if you are still at the point of inventing new terms for things people have been doing for decades, you are probably being fairly superficial in the area as well. Research areas like CNN are especially prone to this because it is so much easier to apply the techniques than to understand the problem domain, and it generates a lot of low quality research papers. See also "when all you have is a hammer".
- ericb 8y ago> My approach to avoid this is always to try and find a recent and well written Masters or Ph.D thesis in the area. How do you find this?
- ska 8y agoTypically start by looking at lab/group home pages who are active and strong in the area . Some universities have good seach capabilities and digital copies, others don’t. Lots of people will have draft versions on their pages though. If you find someone very active in the area and you like the look of their papers, you can always try asking them...
- brianberns 8y agoOne extreme amusing/alarming example of this: “A Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under Glucose Tolerance and Other Metabolic Curves” https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscovery-of-calculus-in-1994-what-should-have-happened-to-that-paper https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscover...
- evanweaver 8y agoEarly on building https://faunadb.com/ https://faunadb.com/, it took us about a year to discover that the literature referred to "historical" or "time travel" queries as temporality. Other startups in our space were also using homemade jargon. We figured somebody else had for sure done this and kept searching for different keywords until we picked up a bunch of papers with the correct terminology.
- gubbrora 8y agoThinking it's more fun to do than read research.
- sorryforthethro 8y agoAlso, the time investment to learn a congruent field's jargon is often much greater than just making up words and let the internet peanut gallery sort out the synonyms for you.
- coredog64 8y agoMaybe this is a Cunningham’s Law type attempt at finding prior art for a new patent.