Abstract
The aim of this study is to introduce a fuzzy model to process structured data. A structured organization of information is typically required by symbolic processing. Most connectionist models assume that data are organized in a form of relatively simple structures such as vectors or sequences. In this work, we propose a connectionist model that can directly process labeled trees. The model is based on a new category of logic connectives and logic neurons that use the concept of uninorms. Uninorms are a generalization of t-norms and t-conorms used for aggregating fuzzy sets. Using a back-propagation algorithm we optimize the parameters of the model (relations and membership functions). The learning issues are presented and some experimental results obtained for synthetic realistic data, are reported.