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Ontology of Communication - Agent-Based Data-Driven or Sign-Based Substitution-Driven? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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Ontology of Communication - Agent-Based Data-Driven or Sign-Based Substitution-Driven? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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The book gives a comprehensive discussion of Database Semantics
(DBS) as an agent-based data-driven theory of how natural language
communication essentially works. In language communication, agents
switch between speak mode, driven by cognition-internal content
(input) resulting in cognition-external raw data (e.g. sound waves
or pixels, which have no meaning or grammatical properties but can
be measured by natural science), and hear mode, driven by the raw
data produced by the speaker resulting in cognition-internal
content. The motivation is to compare two approaches for an
ontology of communication: agent-based data-driven vs. sign-based
substitution-driven. Agent-based means: design of a cognitive agent
with (i) an interface component for converting raw data into
cognitive content (recognition) and converting cognitive content
into raw data (action), (ii) an on-board, content-addressable
memory (database) for the storage and content retrieval, (iii)
separate treatments of the speak and the hear mode. Data-driven
means: (a) mapping a cognitive content as input to the speak-mode
into a language-dependent surface as output, (b) mapping a surface
as input to the hear-mode into a cognitive content as output.
Oppositely, sign-based means: no distinction between speak and hear
mode, whereas substitution-driven means: using a single start
symbol as input for generating infinitely many outputs, based on
substitutions by rewrite rules. Collecting recent research of the
author, this beautiful, novel and original exposition begins with
an introduction to DBS, makes a linguistic detour on
subject/predicate gapping and slot-filler repetition, and moves on
to discuss computational pragmatics, inference and cognition,
grammatical disambiguation and other related topics. The book is
mostly addressed to experts working in the field of computational
linguistics, as well as to enthusiasts interested in the history
and early development of this subject, starting with the
pre-computational foundations of theoretical computer science and
symbolic logic in the 30s.
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