{"pk":30560,"title":"A Distributed Conncetionist Representation for Concept Structures","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We describe a representation for frame-like concept structures ina neural network called DUCS. Slot names and slot fillers axe diffuse patternsof activation spread over a collection of units. Our choice of a distributedrepresentation gives rise to certain useful properties not shaied by conventionalframe systems. One of these is the ability to encode fine semantic distinctions assubtle vairiations on the canonical pattern for a slot. D U C S typically maintainsseveral concepts simultaneously in its concept memory; it can retrieve a conceptgiven one or more slots as cues. W e show how Hinton's notion of a \"reduceddescription\" cam be used to make one concept fill a slot in another.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Connectionism I","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/034735qs","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"S.","last_name":"Touretzky","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carnegie-Mellon University","department":""},{"first_name":"Shai","middle_name":"","last_name":"Geva","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carnegie-Mellon University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1987-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30560/galley/20409/download/"}]}