NEURONS OR SYMBOLS - Why Does OR Remain Exclusive?

Ekaterina Komendantskaya

2009

Abstract

Neuro-Symbolic Integration is an interdisciplinary area that endeavours to unify neural networks and symbolic logic. The goal is to create a system that combines the advantages of neural networks (adaptive behaviour, robustness, tolerance of noise and probability) and symbolic logic (validity of computations, generality, higherorder reasoning). Several different approaches have been proposed in the past. However, the existing neurosymbolic networks provide only a limited coverage of the techniques used in computational logic. In this paper, we outline the areas of neuro-symbolism where computational logic has been implemented so far, and analyse the problematic areas. We show why certain concepts cannot be implemented using the existing neuro-symbolic networks, and propose four main improvements needed to build neuro-symbolic networks of the future.

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Komendantskaya E. (2009). NEURONS OR SYMBOLS - Why Does OR Remain Exclusive? . In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICNC, (IJCCI 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-014-6, pages 502-507. DOI: 10.5220/0002334805020507


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@conference{icnc09,
author={Ekaterina Komendantskaya},
title={NEURONS OR SYMBOLS - Why Does OR Remain Exclusive?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICNC, (IJCCI 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={502-507},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002334805020507},
isbn={978-989-674-014-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICNC, (IJCCI 2009)
TI - NEURONS OR SYMBOLS - Why Does OR Remain Exclusive?
SN - 978-989-674-014-6
AU - Komendantskaya E.
PY - 2009
SP - 502
EP - 507
DO - 10.5220/0002334805020507