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Author: Emanuel Diamant

Affiliation: VIDIA-mant, Israel

Keyword(s): Information Definition, Information Processing, Computing with Words.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Applications ; Artificial Intelligence ; Cognitive Systems ; Computational Intelligence ; Enterprise Information Systems ; Evolutionary Computing ; Human-Computer Interaction ; Intelligent User Interfaces ; Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development ; Knowledge Representation and Reasoning ; Knowledge-Based Systems ; Natural Language Processing ; Pattern Recognition ; Soft Computing ; Symbolic Systems ; Vision and Perception

Abstract: “Information Processing” is a recently launched buzzword whose meaning is vague and obscure even for the majority of its users. The reason for this is the lack of a suitable definition for the term “information”. In my attempt to amend this bizarre situation, I have realized that, following the insights of Kolmogorov’s Complexity theory, information can be defined as a description of structures observable in a given data set. Two types of structures could be easily distinguished in every data set – in this regard, two types of information (information descriptions) should be designated: physical information and semantic information. Kolmogorov’s theory also posits that the information descriptions should be provided as a linguistic text structure. This inevitably leads us to an assertion that information processing has to be seen as a kind of text processing. The idea is not new – inspired by the observation that human information processing is deeply rooted in natural language handl ing customs, Lotfi Zadeh and his followers have introduced the so-called “Computing With Words” paradigm. Despite of promotional efforts, the idea is not taking off yet. The reason – a lack of a coherent understanding of what should be called “information”, and, as a result, misleading research roadmaps and objectives. I hope my humble attempt to clarify these issues would be helpful in avoiding common traps and pitfalls. (More)

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Diamant, E. (2013). When you Talk about “Information Processing” What Actually Do you have in Mind?. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART; ISBN 978-989-8565-39-6; ISSN 2184-433X, SciTePress, pages 238-243. DOI: 10.5220/0004214602380243

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PY - 2013
SP - 238
EP - 243
DO - 10.5220/0004214602380243
PB - SciTePress