J J Oliver and D L Dowe, Using unsupervised learning to assist supervised learning, Technical Report #95/235, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 8pp, 1995. http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/Publications/1995/Oliver+Dowe1995_MonashCS_TR95.235.ref The abstract of this technical report paper is downloadable as HTML (.html) from http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/publications/1995/tr-cs95-235-abs.html http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/Publications/1995/Oliver+Dowe1995_MonashCS_tr-cs95-235-abs.html . A highly related piece of work approximately contemporaneous with the abovementioned technical report is: Oliver, J.J. and D.L. Dowe (1995). "Using Unsupervised Learning to Assist Supervised Learning. Proc. 8th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), University of NSW, Canberra, Australia, November 1995, pp275-282.