Image processing, human-computer interaction, planning, applications and theory of expert systems, learn­ ing, speech, and natural language processing and semantics repre­ sents as broad a spectrum of AI and AI-related topics as can be found in current AI research.

Section 1: Image Processing.- Application of Artificial Intelligence to Two Dimensional Assembly Tasks.- IO: Towards an Alternative Image of Human Vision.- Section 2: Human-Computer Interaction.- An Expert System for the Elaboration of Teaching Plan Based on a Subject-Matter Model.- Computer Recognition of Nonverbal Behaviour: Conversational Pragmatics in Human-Computer Interaction.- A General Effect Representation for Operating System Commands.- Section 3: Planning.- Speaking About Plans.- Automatically Derived Heuristics for Planning Search.- Section 4: Expert Systems, Applications and Theory.- On Probabilistic Logic.- An Expert System for Programming Assistance in Complex Environments, The ESPACE System.- PEMES — A Petroleum Exploration Oriented Model Expert System.- Combining Evidence in the Extended Dempster-Shafer Theory.- Issues of Real-Time Expert Systems.- Section 5: Learning.- Training Neural Networks: Strategies and Tactics.- Computational Darwinism, or: Who Teaches the Teacher?.- The Emergence of Higher Levels of Description.- Robot Program Construction from Examples.- Section 6: Speech Processing.- A Physiologically Based Front-End Processor for Speech Recognition.- Section 7: Natural Language Processing.- Deriving a Natural Set of Semantic Primitives from Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.- Representing Knowledge About Words.- The Logical Structure of WH-Clauses.

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