Are they really worth the effort ?

[Nitin Indurkhya]

>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. 

in our own studies with the NETtalk dataset that you gave us, we found
that local representations were competitive. the results are reported in
"reduced complexity rule induction" by weiss and indurkhya (to be presented
at ijcai-91).

--nitin