'... admirably clearly written, and well structured throughout...The book succeeds very well in its aims: it does improve on the weaknesses of comparisons between approaches in the literature; it implicitly sets out how industrially oriented research is best carried out; and it presents some interesting, sometimes fascinating new results and approaches.' Network 3 'This volume collects the more successful case studies from a very large research project at BT Laboratories that set out to investigate the applicability of neural computing to speech, vision and the natural language problems in this application context...of interest to researchers with specialist knowledge of these subjects or, especially, to those with an interest in the application of multi-layer perceptions to practical problems.' Computing