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Everything that Linguists have Always Wanted to Know about Connectionism *

This paper is meant to be an introduction to connectionism for linguists. It covers fundamentals of connectionism and applications of connectionism to human language processing. Because the first (and the last for some) question that linguists want to ask is “why bother with connectionism?” it would be appropriate to try to answer this question first. A quick and rather naive answer is that bot...

GRADSIM: A Connectionist Network Simulator Using Gradient Optimization Techniques

A simulator for connectionist networks which uses gradient methods of nonlinear optimization for network learning is described. The simulator (GRADSIM) was designed for temporal flow model connectionist networks. The complete gradient is computed for networks of general connectivity, including recurrent links. The simulator is written in C, uses simple network and data descriptors for flexibili...

Possible Implications Of Connectionism

As far as I can tell the most exciting thing happening in AI these days is the invasion of the brain people (a.k.a. the connectionists). The connectionists haven't really invaded the AI community in the sense of making a planned assault it just seems that connectionism is the sexiest thing around. The AI community has very suddenly become very interested in connectionist techniques and it is on...

Connectionism, Creativity and Guided Walks

Connectionism, Learning and Meaning

There is an apparent anomaly in the notion that connectionism, which is fundamentally a new technology, has considerable philosophical significance. Nonetheless, connectionism has been widely viewed as having implications for symbol grounding, notions of structured representation and compositionality, as well as the issue of nativism. In this paper, we consider each of these issues in detail, a...