coinstance

Noun

coinstance (plural coinstances)

1. (rare) A fellow instance (of a theme, concept, etc), which may be a discrete (separate) one or a coinstantiation.
   • Notice in particular the semantic relation which is set up between 'negative culture' and being 'totally suspicious' of change, 'looking for the rip-off', trying to 'get one over on them', 'demarcation lines', 'inflexible' and 'destructive'. We can see this as the texturing of a semantic relation...2003, Norman Fairclough, “Chapter 2: Texts, social events and social practices”, in Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research, Routledge, →ISBN, page 23
   • Chevaleyre and Zucker (2001) present a general approach to upgrading learners to the multi-instance setting, apply it to RIPPER (Cohen, 1995) with good results, and briefly discuss how decision tree learners can be upgraded in a similar way. Their main point is that changing the heuristic for...2005, Hendrik Blockeel, David Page, Ashwin Srinivasan, “Multi-Instance Tree Learning”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, volume 2005, Association for Computing...