Ph. D. Dissertation

The long title translates as A theoretical approach to connectionist learning, with applications for speech recognition. This is a relatively big document with a number of relatively new ideas for the time.

Léon Bottou: Une Approche théorique de l'Apprentissage Connexionniste: Applications à la Reconnaissance de la Parole, Ph.D. thesis, Université de Paris XI, Orsay, France, 1991.

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@phdthesis{bottou-91a,
  title = {Une Approche th\'eorique de l'Apprentissage Connexionniste: Applications \`a la Reconnaissance de la Parole},
  author = {Bottou, {L\'eon}},
  year = {1991},
  school = {Universit\'{e} de Paris XI},
  address = {Orsay, France},
  url = {http://leon.bottou.org/papers/bottou-91a},
}