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From: esrmm@warwick.ac.uk (Denis Anthony)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Neural nets applied to Expert Systems?
Keywords: ptrs to lit
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.093707.21448@warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Jan 91 09:37:07 GMT
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In article <17355@brahms.udel.edu> bryden@brahms.udel.edu (Chris Bryden) writes:
>In article <> guedalia@bimacs.UUCP (David Guedalia) writes:
>}In article <> schneide@arisia.Xerox.COM (Kris A. Schneider) writes:
>}>...neural networks used by an expert system.  Any help?
>}
>}   Hi, I am sorry I do not know of any refrences. But from what I
>}understand of Expert Systems and Neural Nets they seem to be
>}opposites. (I would be intrested of hearing of an aplication of the
>}above system).
>
>Actually, I heard a nasty rumor that someone had a method by which
>they could pull rules, for an expert system, from a properly trained
>neural network.  I would appreciate any references that would make
>or break this rumor.
>
>--
One I have read is :-

%Q Saito K, and Nakano R
%D 1990
%T Rule Extraction from Facts and Neural Networks
%J INNS Int. Neural Networks Conference (Paris)
%V 1
%P 379-382

Denis