special issue on language learning

[Dave_Touretzky@DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU]

Ken Miller's special issue announcement reminded me that I should have
announced my own special issue on this forum.  Well, it's not too late.
Following Ken's format:


VOL. 7 NOS. 2 and 3 of MACHINE LEARNING (1991)

This special double issue is also available as a book
from Kluwer Academic Publishers.

CONNECTIONIST APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE LEARNING
Guest Editor:  David S. Touretzky

CONTENTS:
Introduction
----- David S. Touretzky

Learning Automata from Ordered Examples
----- Sara Porat and Jerome A. Feldman

SLUG: A Connectionist Architecture for Inferring the Structure
of Finite-State Environments
----- Michael C. Mozer and Jonathan Bachrach

Graded State Machines: The Representation of Temporal
Contingencies in Simple Recurrent Networks
----- David S. Servan-Schreiber, Axel Cleeremans, and James L. McClelland

Distributed Representations, Simple Recurrent Networks, 
and Grammatical Structure
----- Jeffrey L. Elman

The Induction of Dynamical Recognizers
----- Jordan B. Pollack


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