Tech report on connectionist knowledge processing

[Charles Dolan]

                       Implementing a connectionist production
                             system using tensor products


                                    September, 1988

                        UCLA-AI-88-15            CU-CS-411-88

                      Charles P. Dolan          Paul Smolensky
                          AI Center       Department of Computer Science &
                    Hughes Research Labs   Institute of Cognitive Science
                   3011 Malibu Canyon Rd.    University of Colorado
                      Malibu, CA  90265      Boulder, CO 80309-0430
                             &
                     UCLA AI Laboratory

                                       Abstract

           In this paper we show  that  the  tensor  product  technique  for
           constructing  variable  bindings  and  for  representing symbolic
           structure-used  by  Dolan  and  Dyer  (1987)  in   parts   of   a
           connectionist  story understanding model, and analyzed in general
           terms in Smolensky (1987)-can be  effectively  used  to  build  a
           simplified  version  of  Touretzky  & Hinton's (1988) Distributed
           Connectionist Production System.  The new system  is  called  the
           Tensor Product Product System (TPPS).


                  Copyright c 1988 by Charles Dolan & Paul Smolensky.


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