This text is written by researchers at BT Laboratories and at universities who have investigated a set of problems in vision, speech and natural language. It presents a diversity of approaches to the solution of these problems, based on a range of neural network paradigms. The book also includes sections on implementation, which discuss some approaches to hardware realization; and architectures, which describe new ideas and algorithms.

This book is a collection of papers by British Telecom researchers and their BT funded academic collaborators in the BT Connex project. This project concerns the application of neural networks to image processing, speech technology and natural language processing.