David Touretzky on connectionist vs. symbolic models, knowledge rep.

[Lorien Y. Pratt]

				   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.