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                    CONNECTIONIST BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
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              Barnden, J.A. & Pollack, J.B.  (Eds). (1991).

          Advances in Connectionist and Neural Computation Theory, Vol. 1:
                      High Level Connectionist Models.

                 Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing Corp.

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ISBN 0-89391-687-0
Location index QA76.5.H4815 1990
389 pp.

Extensive subject index.

Cost $34.50 for individuals and course adoption.

For more information: 
   jbarnden at nmsu.edu, pollack at cis.ohio-state.edu
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MAIN CONTENTS:

David Waltz
   Foreword

John A. Barnden & Jordan B. Pollack
   Introduction: problems for high level connectionism

David S. Touretzky
   Connectionism and compositional semantics

Michael G. Dyer
   Symbolic NeuroEngineering for natural language processing: 
   a multilevel research approach.

Lawrence Bookman & Richard Alterman
   Schema recognition for text understanding: 
   an analog semantic feature approach

Eugene Charniak & Eugene Santos
   A context-free connectionist parser which is not connectionist, 
   but then it is not really context-free either

Wendy G. Lehnert
   Symbolic/subsymbolic sentence analysis: 
   exploiting the best of two worlds.

James Hendler
   Developing hybrid symbolic/connectionist models

John A. Barnden
   Encoding complex symbolic data structures 
   with some unusual connectionist techniques 

Mark Derthick
   Finding a maximally plausible model of an inconsistent theory

Lokendra Shastri
   The relevance of connectionism to AI:
   a representation and reasoning perspective

Joachim Diederich
   Steps toward knowledge-intensive connectionist learning 

Garrison W. Cottrell & Fu-Sheng Tsung
   Learning simple arithmetic procedures.

Jiawei Hong & Xiaonan Tan
   The similarity between connectionist and other parallel computation models

Lawrence Birnbaum
   Complex features in planning and understanding:
   problems and opportunities for connectionism

Jordan Pollack & John Barnden
   Conclusion