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[Ron Sun]

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    A Connectionist Model for Commonsense Reasoning Incorporating Rules and Similarities



							Ron Sun
							Honeywell SSDC
							3660 Technology Dr.
							Minneapolis, MN 55413
							rsun at orion.ssdc.honeywell.com

For the purpose of modeling commonsense reasoning, we investigate connectionist 
models of rule-based reasoning,    and show that while such models
can usually carry out reasoning   in exactly the same way as symbolic systems,
they have more to offer in terms of commonsense reasoning.  A connectionist architecture,
{\sc CONSYDERR}, is proposed for capturing certain commonsense reasoning competence,
which partially remedies the brittleness problem in traditional rule-based systems.
The architecture employs a two-level, dual representational scheme, which utilizes both 
localist and distributed representations and explores the synergy resulting  from the 
interaction between the two.  {\sc CONSYDERR} is therefore capable of accounting for many 
difficult patterns in commonsense reasoning with this simple combination of the two levels.
This work also shows that connectionist models of reasoning are not just ``implementations" 
of their symbolic counterparts, but better computational models of commonsense reasoning.




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  in: pub/neuroprose (Courtesy of Jordan Pollack)
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FTP procedure:
        unix> ftp archive.cis.ohio-state.edu (or 128.146.8.52)
        Name: anonymous
        Password: neuron
        ftp> cd pub/neuroprose
        ftp> binary
        ftp> get sun.ka.ps.Z
        ftp> quit
        unix> uncompress sun.ka.ps.Z
        unix> lpr sun.ka.ps (or however you print postscript)