Clearly, the above characterization is very wide ranging.
fusion has been applied to a wide variety of pattern recognition and decision theoretic problems-using a plethora of theories, techniques, and tools--including some applications in computational linguistics (e.g., Brill and Wu 1998;van Halteren, Zavrel, and Daelemans 1998) and speech technology (e.g., Bowles and Damper 1989;Romary and Pierrel 1989).