Connectionist

Connectionist models of language processing show that it is possible to abstract grammatical information from the surface features of text: “The networks move from processing frequency relations between mere surface regularities to representing something more abstract, without this being built in as a prespecified syntactic or other linguistic contraint” (N. Ellis ibid.)

X is for X-bar Theory « An A-Z of ELT 2010

Connectionist networks based on numbers showing strength of associations can learn to recognise many important types of patterns - without any need for a person to program them.

need to integrate different approaches to AI (Minsky) Bill Kerr 2008

I see the popularity of Connectionist Networks. in recent years, as having retarded the search for higher level ideas about human psychological machinery... research on commonsense thinking kept advancing until about 1980, but then it was clearly recognised that further progress would need ways to acquire and organise millions of fragments of commonsense knowledge.

minsky 8: resourcefulness Bill Kerr 2008

Connectionist: No, logic is far too inflexible to represent commonsense knowledge.

minsky 8: resourcefulness Bill Kerr 2008

I see the popularity of Connectionist Networks, in recent years, as having retarded the search for higher level ideas about human psychological machinery ... research on commonsense thinking kept advancing until about 1980, but then it was clearly recognised that further progress would need ways to acquire and organise millions of fragments of commonsense knowledge.

Archive 2008-08-01 Bill Kerr 2008

Connectionist networks based on numbers showing strength of associations can learn to recognise many important types of patterns, without any need for a person to program them.

Archive 2008-10-01 Bill Kerr 2008

Binder-decoration is a huge and often neglected aspect of the binding industry ( "Connectionist Syntactic Parsing Using Temporal Variable Binding", Journal for Variable Binding, 2/1/89, pp 302 - 305).

Greg Gutfeld: FU TO THE FU TO THE IOFU 2008

Connectionist: No, logic is far too inflexible to represent commonsense knowledge.

Archive 2008-10-01 Bill Kerr 2008

I see the popularity of Connectionist Networks. in recent years, as having retarded the search for higher level ideas about human psychological machinery... research on commonsense thinking kept advancing until about 1980, but then it was clearly recognised that further progress would need ways to acquire and organise millions of fragments of commonsense knowledge.

Archive 2008-10-01 Bill Kerr 2008

I see the popularity of Connectionist Networks, in recent years, as having retarded the search for higher level ideas about human psychological machinery ... research on commonsense thinking kept advancing until about 1980, but then it was clearly recognised that further progress would need ways to acquire and organise millions of fragments of commonsense knowledge.

need to integrate different approaches to AI (Minsky) Bill Kerr 2008