Are we still at the concepts-from-perception? Or are there other triggers of concept formation? A couple of examples would help, is "1" a concept and if so how is it grounded? Probably there is a large number of tricky "categories", perhaps one should look into a couple of basic ones like "respect", "airplane" and "abstraction".
AT On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Piaget Modeler <[email protected]>wrote: > > Roland Hausser agreed, and also mentioned his work > > Foundations of Computational Linguistics (FoCL), 3rd edition > available 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<http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-41431-2> > > ~PM > > 2014/1/11 Piaget Modeler <[email protected]> > > Now I'm looking at concept formation from perceptual input. I thought > this article was intriguing > since 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 of > thing. 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 words > to 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 answerable > to 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 and > define 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 words > we 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> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/14050631-7d925eb1> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- 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
