New Releases by Andy Clark

Abstract: "NETtalk is a connectionist system able to negotiate a certain problem domain. It may even be said, somewhat loosely, to have knowledge of that domain. Likewise, various lower animals know their way around certain problem domains. But, in a sense to be explained, such systems lack structured knowledge of the domain. They lack explicit abstractions which represent constraints on properties common to a whole class of inputs all of which they can nonetheless deal with appropriately. NETtalk''s knowledge of the entity ''vowel'' is a good example. The paper draws together and criticises a number of perspectives on this basic idea.