Roland Hausser agreed, and also mentioned his work Foundations of Computational Linguistics (FoCL), 3rd editionavailable in soft cover and as an eBook. The official Springer web site is
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-642-41431-2 ~PM 2014/1/11 Piaget Modeler <[email protected]> Now I'm looking at concept formation from perceptual input. I thought this article was intriguingsince it intersects perception, language, and semiosis. Hierarchies in Dictionary Definition Space http://arxiv.org/pdf/0911.5703v1.pdf Conclusion: "All categories, even the most concrete are in fact abstractions, because we must abstract from particular cases, even concrete sensorimotor ones, in order to find the invariant features that distin- guish category members from nonmembers and allow us to do the right thing with the right kind ofthing. But the more that categories are based on other categories, the more abstract they become, and this is reflected by the distances in our induced definitional space. It is in the nature of wordsto be amenable to combination and recombination in such a way as to define or describe ever more categories. Defining, like eating, is something we do. Our more concrete categories are answerableto the constraints of the sensorimotor word in which they are grounded, but our more abstract cat- egories are increasingly answerable only to combinations of other categories, as we describe anddefine them. In abstract mathematics, that constraint, though only formal, is still a rigorous one.In more hermeneutic discourse (e.g. constitutional law or theology) the main constraint on words increasingly becomes just other words. Our mental lexicon must encode the meaning of all the wordswe use in our thought and discourse. Hierarchies in dictionary space may turn out to have counter- parts in cognitive space." Keywords: categories, definition, dictionary, feedback vertex set, graph theory,language learning, lexicography, mental lexicon, semantics, symbol grounding, vocabulary, word meaning Your Thoughts? ~PM ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
