Unfortunately, no -- I knew Jones when he was at Bell Labs, so a lot of what I know about APNs isn't from published papers.
Now he's moved on and BL is not what it used to be, and I have no idea what ever happened to all the work that got done there on APNs. Lucent sure isn't doing it, and AT&T (now Shannon) Labs trashed their AI section a few years back. Josh On Tuesday 22 May 2007 02:39:59 pm Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > On 5/22/07, J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not doing any active work on it at the moment, but my favorite approach > > has been Mark Jones' active production networks, which are one of those > > schemes that lies in the twilight between symbolic and connectionist. Like > > Copycat, it is based on a semantic net with spreading activation and variable > > connection strengths. The network looks like the tree of a grammar, with lots > > of extra links, and the text is fed in by sequentialy "lighting up" the > > terminal nodes that correspond to words. After each one, the network > > reconfigures itself to interpret the next word/phrase appropriately. > > > > There is no formal distinction between nodes holding syntactic and semantic > > information. Indeed, if you "light up" nodes corresponding to a semantic > > situation, the network can be jogged to produce sentences describing it. > > Sounds interesting. I found some papers on it, but couldn't locate a > home page for Jones or the software. Do you have any good URLs to > share that Google isn't coughing up? > > -Chuck > > ----- > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?& > > ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e