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Connectionist expert systems

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Stephen I. GallantAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 31, Issue 2

Pages 152 - 169

https://doi.org/10.1145/42372.42377

Published: 01 February 1988 Publication History

Abstract

Connectionist networks can be used as expert system knowledge bases. Furthermore, such networks can be constructed from training examples by machine learning techniques. This gives a way to automate the generation of expert systems for classification problems.

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