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Connectionist expert systems

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Connectionist networks can be used as expert system knowledge bases. Furthermore, such networks can be constructed from training examples by machine learning techniques. This gives a way to automate the generation of expert systems for classification problems.

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                          Communications of the ACM  Volume 31, Issue 2
                          Feb. 1988
                          118 pages
                          ISSN:0001-0782
                          EISSN:1557-7317
                          DOI:10.1145/42372
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