Neural Networks and Structured Knowledge: Rule Extraction andApplications

  • Authors:
  • Franz J. Kurfess

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, Canada. Franz.Kurfess@computer.org

  • Venue:
  • Applied Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

As the second part of a special issue on “Neural Networksand Structured Knowledge,” the contributions collected hereconcentrate on the extraction of knowledge, particularly in the formof rules, from neural networks, and on applications relying on therepresentation and processing of structured knowledge by neuralnetworks. The transformation of the low-level internal representationin a neural network into higher-level knowledge or information thatcan be interpreted more easily by humans and integrated withsymbol-oriented mechanisms is the subject of the first group ofpapers. The second group of papers uses specific applications asstarting point, and describes approaches based on neural networks forthe knowledge representation required to solve crucial tasks in therespective application.The companion first part of the special issue [1] contains papers dealing with representationand reasoning issues on the basis of neural networks.