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Semantics, conceptual spaces and the meeting of minds| old_uid | 4513 |
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| title | Semantics, conceptual spaces and the meeting of minds |
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| start_date | 2008/04/03 |
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| schedule | 15h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | Amphi Jade |
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| summary | Abstract: We present an account of semantics that is not construed as a mapping of language to the world, but mapping between individual meaning spaces. The meanings of linguistic entities are established via a “meeting of minds.” The concepts in the minds of communicating individuals are modeled as convex regions in conceptual spaces. We outline a mathematical framework based on fixpoints in continuous mappings between conceptual spaces that can be used to model such a semantics. If concepts are convex, it will in general be possible for the interactors to agree on a joint meaning even if they start out from different representational spaces. Furthermore, we show by some examples that the approach helps explaining the semantic processes involved in the composition of expressions. |
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| responsibles | <not specified> |
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