Asymmetric Hybrids: Dialogues for Computational Concept Combination Show others and affiliations
2021 (English) In: Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference (FOIS 2021) / [ed] F. Neuhaus & B. Brodaric, IOS Press, 2021, p. 81-96Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
When people combine concepts these are often characterisedas “hybrid”, “impossible”, or “humorous”. However, when simplyconsidering them in terms of extensional logic, the novel conceptsunderstood as a conjunctive concept will often lack meaning having anempty extension (consider “a tooth that is a chair”, “a pet flower”,etc.). Still, people use different strategies to produce new non-emptyconcepts: additive or integrative combination of features, alignment offeatures, instantiation, etc. All these strategies involve the ability to dealwith conflicting attributes and the creation of new (combinations of)properties. We here consider in particular the case where a Head concepthas superior ‘asymmetric’ control over steering the resulting conceptcombination (or hybridisation) with a Modifier concept. Specifically, wepropose a dialogical approach to concept combination and discuss animplementation based on axiom weakening, which models the cognitiveand logical mechanics of this asymmetric form of hybridisation.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages IOS Press, 2021. p. 81-96
Series
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, ISSN 0922-6389, E-ISSN 1879-8314 ; Volume 344
Keywords [en]
Concept Combination, Hybridisation, Axiom Weakening, Dialogues, Compositionality
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-55473 DOI: 10.3233/FAIA210373 ISBN: 978-1-64368-248-8 (print) ISBN: 978-1-64368-249-5 (electronic) OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-55473 DiVA, id: diva2:1625444
Conference Twelfth International Conference (FOIS 2021)
2022-01-072022-01-072022-07-22 Bibliographically approved