Computational Architectures Integrating Neural and Symbolic Processes: A Perspective on the State of the Art

by Ron Sun (editor)

Foreword; M. Arbib. 1. An On Symbolic Processing in Neural Networks; R. Sun. Part Localist Architectures. 2. Complex Symbol-Processing in Conposit, a Transiently Localist Connectionist Architecture; J.A. Barnden. 3. A Structured Connectionist Approach to Inferencing and Retrieval; T.E. Lange. 4. Hierarchical Architectures for Reasoning; R.C. Lacher, K.D. Nguyen. Part Distributed Architectures. 5. Subsymbolic Parsing of Embedded Structures; R. Miikkulainen. 6. Towards Instructable Connectionist Systems; D.C. Noelle, G.W. Cottrell. 7. An Internal Report for Connectionists; N.E. Sharkey, S.A. Jackson. Part Combined Architectures. 8. A Two-Level Hybrid Architecture for Structuring Knowledge for Commonsense Reasoning; R. Sun. 9. A Framework for Integrating Relational and Associational Knowledge for Comprehension; L.A. Bookman. 10. Examining a Hybrid Connectionist/Symbolic System for the Analysis of Ballistic Signals; C. Lin, J. Hendler. Part Commentaries. 11. Symbolic Artificial Intelligence and Numeric Artificial Neural Towards a Resolution of the Dichotomy; V. Honavar. 12. Connectionist Natural Language a Status Report; M.G. Dyer. Bibliography of Connectionist Models with Symbolic Processing. Author Index. Subject Index.

500 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 1994