Seminar notice

[jacobs]

       Neural Networks and High-Level Cognitive Tasks
                      Robert B. Allen, Bellcore
		Thursday, July 6, 10am, Guest House
	GE Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY 

While connectionist networks are clearly applicable to
signal processing tasks, they have been claimed not to be
relevant to high-level cognitive tasks.  However, the
networks' ability to adapt to context and the parsimony of a
vertically integrated cognitive model make their use for
high-level tasks worth careful investigation.  This talk
reviews the author's work with temporal networks on
applications including 4-term analogies, agent modeling,
agent interaction, grammars, planning, plan recognition, and
'language use'.  In addition novel architectures and
procedures such as adaptive training and a new reinforcement
technique will be described.  While the models to be
reported have substantial limitations, the scope and
relative ease with which results have been obtained seems
promising.