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Timo Honkela, Mickwitz seminariet, 9.2.2017
Helsinki 9th of Feb 2017
Turning quantity into qualityand making concepts visibleusing computational means
Timo Honkela
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Timo Honkela, Mickwitz seminariet, 9.2.2017
Timo Honkela
9 Feb 2017
University of Helsinki
Turning quantity into quality and making concepts visibleusing computational means
Mickwitz seminariet, Helsingfors (Helsinki)
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Turning quantity into quality
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Lindh-Knuutila & Honkela 2015
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Lindh-Knuutila & Honkela 2015
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Lindh-Knuutila & Honkela 2015
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Quality and quantity
● Modeling language is challenging just due to the sheer quantities involved
● Language is a phenomenon that encompassesa number of areas and levels of abstraction
● In contrast to formal languages, ambiguity/polysemy is inherently involved
● Language is not an isolated formal system but an evolving system that is influenced bypsychoogical, cognitive, social and cultural factors
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> 6000 languages,many more dialects Billions of people
blogs.state.gov
en.wikipedia.org
A large number ofdifferent cultures
en.wikipedia.org A vast number of ways to relatelanguage, concepts andthe world to each other
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Language as a system
● Considering natural language as a signal and dynamic system at cognitive and social levels (also in its written form) rather than a symbolic and logical system
● Importance of embodiment (cf. e.g. Harnad) and embeddedness (cf. e.g. Edelman)
● Learning and pattern recognition processes are essential (as opposed to the theories presented e.g. by Chomsky, Fodor, Pinker); much of the learning is bound to be unsupervised
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Meaning is contextual
red winered skinred shirt
Gärdenfors: Conceptual Spaces
Hardin: Color for Philosophers
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Förger & Honkela, 2013
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Consider how different languagesdivide the conceptual space
in different ways(cf. e.g. Melissa Bowerman et al.)
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Making concepts visible
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Maps of words in Grimm fairy tales
Honkela, Pulkki & Kohonen 1995
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Dynamics ofconcepts
and words
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Making concepts visible
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Meaning is subjective
● Good● Fair● Useful● Scientific● Democratic● Sustainable● etc.
A proper theory ofmeaning has to takethis into account
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