Are they really worth the effort ?

[Tom Dietterich]

In my studies of error-correcting output codes, I found that these
codes---which are particularly neat distributed
representations---performed consistently better than local
representations in the NETtalk domain and in isolated letter speech
recognition. 

--Tom

Thomas G. Dietterich
Department of Computer Science
Dearborn Hall, 303
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-3102
503-737-5559