sriniv@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Srinivas Kankanahalli) (05/27/91)
CONNECTIONIST BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT =============================== Barnden, J.A. & Pollack, J.B. (Eds). (1991). Advances in Connectionist and Neural Computation Theory, Vol. 1: High Level Connectionist Models. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing Corp. ------------------------------------------------ ISBN 0-89391-687-0 Location index QA76.5.H4815 1990 389 pp. Extensive subject index. Cost $34.50 for individuals and course adoption. For more information: jbarnden@nmsu.edu, pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu ------------------------------------------------ MAIN CONTENTS: David Waltz Foreword John A. Barnden & Jordan B. Pollack Introduction: problems for high level connectionism David S. Touretzky Connectionism and compositional semantics Michael G. Dyer Symbolic NeuroEngineering for natural language processing: a multilevel research approach. Lawrence Bookman & Richard Alterman Schema recognition for text understanding: an analog semantic feature approach Eugene Charniak & Eugene Santos A context-free connectionist parser which is not connectionist, but then it is not really context-free either Wendy G. Lehnert Symbolic/subsymbolic sentence analysis: exploiting the best of two worlds. James Hendler Developing hybrid symbolic/connectionist models John A. Barnden Encoding complex symbolic data structures with some unusual connectionist techniques Mark Derthick Finding a maximally plausible model of an inconsistent theory Lokendra Shastri The relevance of connectionism to AI: a representation and reasoning perspective Joachim Diederich Steps toward knowledge-intensive connectionist learning Garrison W. Cottrell & Fu-Sheng Tsung Learning simple arithmetic procedures. Jiawei Hong & Xiaonan Tan The similarity between connectionist and other parallel computation models Lawrence Birnbaum Complex features in planning and understanding: problems and opportunities for connectionism Jordan Pollack & John Barnden Conclusion