Concept Formation Rules: An Executable Cognitive Model of Knowledge Construction

Veronica Dahl, Kimberly Voll

2004

Abstract

We develop a cognitive model of knowledge construction inspired by constructivist theory as well as by recent natural language processing methodologies. Our generalization of these methodologies into a new and directly executable cognitive paradigm, concept formation, has been tested in non-trivial applications with very promising results. Our system accommodates user definition of properties between concepts as well as user commands to relax their enforcement. It also accepts concept formation from concepts that violate principles that have been declared as relaxable, and produces a list of satisfied properties and a list of violated properties as a side effect of the normal application of the rule.

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Dahl V. and Voll K. (2004). Concept Formation Rules: An Executable Cognitive Model of Knowledge Construction . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLUCS, (ICEIS 2004) ISBN 972-8865-05-8, pages 29-36. DOI: 10.5220/0002685700290036


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@conference{nlucs04,
author={Veronica Dahl and Kimberly Voll},
title={Concept Formation Rules: An Executable Cognitive Model of Knowledge Construction},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLUCS, (ICEIS 2004)},
year={2004},
pages={29-36},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002685700290036},
isbn={972-8865-05-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLUCS, (ICEIS 2004)
TI - Concept Formation Rules: An Executable Cognitive Model of Knowledge Construction
SN - 972-8865-05-8
AU - Dahl V.
AU - Voll K.
PY - 2004
SP - 29
EP - 36
DO - 10.5220/0002685700290036