Types and quantifiers in shruti-a connectionist model of rapid reasoning and relational processing

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 1778, Issue , 2000, Pages 28-45

  Shastri, Lokendra ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); SEMANTICS;

BODY OF KNOWLEDGE; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; CONNECTIONIST MODELS; RELATIONAL PROCESSING;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84942870045     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/10719871_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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