SCANing Understanding: A Hybrid and Connectionist Architecture

This paper describes a general architecture SCAN for a hybrid symbolic connectionist processing of natural language phrases. SCAN's architecture shows how learned connectionist domain-dependent semantic representations can be combined with encoded symbolic syntactic represenations. Within this general architecture we focus on a connectionist model for semantic classification based on a scanning understanding of phrases. We specify strategies at the top-most theory level and we show how these stragegies are realized in a recurrent connectionist plausability network at the underlying representation level. In particular, this model demonstrates that a recurrent connectionist network can learn a semantic memory model for phrase classification based on a scanning understanding.

@InProceedings{Wer92, 
 	 author =  {Wermter, Stefan},  
 	 title = {SCANing Understanding: A Hybrid and Connectionist Architecture}, 
 	 booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Integrating Neural and Symbolic Processes},
 	 editors = {},
 	 number = {},
 	 volume = {},
 	 pages = {83--90},
 	 year = {1992},
 	 month = {},
 	 publisher = {},
 	 doi = {}, 
 }