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From classifications to cognitive categorization: the example of the road lexicon

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Within a new paradigm of categorization which is currently being developed in cognitive research, one of the main phenomena which has to be taken into account, is typicality (representativeness, family resemblance…). The gradedness that it introduces into categorical structures entails reconsideration of the relationship between extension and intension within categorical structures as well as between them. This involves both technical aspects and theoretical considerations relating to the meaningfulness of mathematical models to explain cognitive structures. Our contribution bears on the use and the evaluation of different data analysis methods to get at the featural structure of non verbal concepts from their graded extensional representation. The case which is used is that of mental categories of roads and landscapes in order to illustrate the main concepts that mathematical models of cognitive structures must (and can) explain on formal, theoretical and practical levels.

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  1. LCPE/LEPC, CNRS, 41 rue Gay Lussac, 75005, Paris, France

    Danièle Dubois

  2. MA/INRETS, 2 avenue du Général Malleret Joinville, 94114, Arcueil, France

    Dominique Fleury

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  1. Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), F-75150, Rocquencourt, Le Chesnay, France

    Edwin Diday  & Yves Lechevallier  & 

  2. Universität Mannheim, Schloß, D-68131, Mannheim, Germany

    Martin Schader (Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik III) (Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik III)

  3. Université Paris IX Dauphine, Pl. du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, F-75775, Paris Cedex 16, France

    Patrice Bertrand

  4. TELECOM-Paris, 46, rue Barrault, F-75013, Paris, France

    Bernard Burtschy

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Dubois, D., Fleury, D. (1994). From classifications to cognitive categorization: the example of the road lexicon. In: Diday, E., Lechevallier, Y., Schader, M., Bertrand, P., Burtschy, B. (eds) New Approaches in Classification and Data Analysis. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51175-2_2

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