Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!paul.rutgers.edu!zztop.rutgers.edu!pratt From: pratt@zztop.rutgers.edu (Lorien Y. Pratt) Newsgroups: dcs.csgss,ru.colloquia.cs,comp.ai.neural-nets Subject: David Touretzky on connectionist vs. symbolic models, knowledge rep. Keywords: neural networks, connectionism, symbol, knowledge, model Message-ID: Date: 16 Sep 88 13:54:05 GMT Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 30 Fall, 1988 Neural Networks Colloquium Series at Rutgers presents David Touretzky Carnegie-Mellon University Room 705 Hill center, Busch Campus Friday September 23, 1988 at 11:10 am Refreshments served before the talk Abstract My talk will explore the relationship between connectionist models and symbolic models, and ask what sort of things we should expect from a connectionist knowledge representation. In particular I'm interested in certain natural language tasks, like prepositional phrase attachment, which people do rapidly and unconsciously but which involve complicated inferences and a huge amount of world knowledge. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Lorien Y. Pratt Computer Science Department pratt@paul.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Busch Campus (201) 932-4634 Piscataway, NJ 08854