The seminal work on scientific “paradigms” (meaning models of reality) is Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 classic, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. For Kuhn, ruling—but inaccurate—scientific models (like ...

Word of the Day: Some words quietly shape how we understand the world, and paradigm is one of them. It’s the kind of term that doesn’t just describe ideas, it frames them. When a paradigm shifts, ...

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In the scope of this paper, a paradigm is a general modeling framework or a distinct set of methodologies to solve a class of tasks. For instance, sequence labeling is a mainstream paradigm for named ...