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An introduction to dynamic concept systems

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Processing Declarative Knowledge (PDK 1991)

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A new kind of concept representation and processing formalisms, dynamic concept systems (DCS), is introduced. DCS are designed to model context-sensitive and compositionally productive interaction of many concepts in a quasi-continuous fashion, with subsumption, robust classification and metonymy as derivable features. DCS are symbolic throughout but in some respects inspired by complex systems theory. This paper concentrates on the representational aspects of DCS, giving their procedural features a passing glance.

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  1. Faculty of Technology, University of Bielefeld, 4800, Bielefeld 1, Germany

    Herbert Jaeger

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Harold Boley Michael M. Richter

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Jaeger, H. (1991). An introduction to dynamic concept systems. In: Boley, H., Richter, M.M. (eds) Processing Declarative Knowledge. PDK 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 567. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0013523

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