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From: bstev@pnet12.cts.com (Barry Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Neural Nets???  BUMBLE-BEE!
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Date: 1 Oct 88 14:56:24 GMT
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With reference to Savvy:

Die-hard neural network purists say that Savvy has nothing to do with
neural nets. The explanation I got was that the system has no "connection"
to recognized neural networks, such as back propogation.

I asked the original author of the program what was under the covers. He
wouldn't answer me directly, but suggested that I look up papers on
something called "n-tuple pattern recognition", and that they were, among
other places, found in the Sandia Labs library. I called Sandia, and since
I'm not an employee, couldn't get a copy.

I'd like to do some reading on the topic -- does anyone know where I can
find papers on the topic : "N-tuple pattern recognition?"

I have used Savvy. It has a very friendly front end, being as smart about
English as you are with the synonyms you can build, it has an extremely
powerful parsing capability that has let me experiment with extracting
production rules from text, and performs nearest-neighbor classification on
the words you want to look up very quickly. Whether or not this qualifies
as neural network capabilities...

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