Publications

Here you can find a chronological list of my publications.

2023

Using Conceptual Spaces for Artificial Intelligence [dissertation]
Lucas Bechberger
Dissertation, Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrück University, December 2023.

Using Conceptual Spaces for Artificial Intelligence [abstract]
Lucas Bechberger
Invited Talk at workshop “Conceptual Spaces at Work”, (hybrid) Warsaw University of Technology, June 2023.

2021

Grounding Psychological Shape Space in Convolutional Neural Networks [preprint] [slides] [recording] [pre-proceedings] [paper]
Lucas Bechberger and Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
3rd International Workshop on Cognition: Interdisciplinary Foundations, Models and Applications, December 2021.

Grounding Psychological Similarity Spaces in Deep Neural Networks [abstract]
Lucas Bechberger
Workshop “Computational Cognition”, (virtual) Osnabrück/Germany, September 2021.

Towards Conceptual Logic Tensor Networks [recording] [paper]
Lucas Bechberger
CAOS 2021: Fifth Workshop on Cognition And OntologieS, (hybrid) Bolzano/Italy, September 2021.

Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Map Line Drawings Into Psychological Shape Space [abstract]
Lucas Bechberger and Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
3rd International Workshop “Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application (CARLA)”, (virtual) Bolzano/Italy, September 2021.

Review of the Book “Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds” by Antonio Lieto [review]
Lucas Bechberger
ACM Computing Reviews, July 2021.

Numerical Concepts in Context [paper]
Paola Gega, Mingya Liu, and Lucas Bechberger
Lucas Bechberger, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, and Mingya Liu: “Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application”. Language, Cognition, and Mind. 2021.

Generalizing Psychological Similarity Spaces to Unseen Stimuli – Combining Multidimensional Scaling with Artificial Neural Networks [paper] [preprint]
Lucas Bechberger and Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
Lucas Bechberger, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, and Mingya Liu: “Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application”. Language, Cognition, and Mind. 2021.

Concepts in Action: Introduction [paper]
Lucas Bechberger and Mingya Liu
Lucas Bechberger, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, and Mingya Liu: “Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application”. Language, Cognition, and Mind. 2021.

2020

Representing Complex Shapes with Conceptual Spaces [abstract] [slides]
Lucas Bechberger and Margit Scheibel
2nd International Workshop “Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application (CARLA)”, (virtual) Bolzano/Italy, September 2020.

Analyzing Psychological Similarity Spaces for Shapes [abstract] [preprint] [slides]
Lucas Bechberger and Margit Scheibel
Poster at the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, (virtual) Bolzano/Italy, September 2020.

2019

Using Conceptual Spaces for Cognitive AI [abstract] [slides]
Lucas Bechberger
Invited Talk at TriCoLore 2.0 workshop, Bolzano/Italy, November 2019

Formalized Conceptual Spaces with a Geometric Representation of Correlations [paper] [preprint]
Lucas Bechberger and Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
Mauri Kaipainen, Antti Hautamäki, Peter Gärdenfors, and Frank Zenker: “Conceptual Spaces: Elaborations and Applications”. Synthese Library. June 2019.

2018

Representing Correlations in Conceptual Spaces [abstract] [slides]
Lucas Bechberger
Invited Talk at the Research Colloquium of the Duesseldorf Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Düsseldorf/Germany, November 2018.

Formal Ways for Measuring Relations between Concepts in Conceptual Spaces [paper] [preprint]
Lucas Bechberger and Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
Expert Systems. November 2018.

Machine Learning in Conceptual Spaces: Two Learning Processes [abstract] [slides]
Lucas Bechberger
Talk at the Workshop “Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application (CARLA)”, Osnabrück/Germany, August 2018

Mapping Images to Psychological Similarity Spaces Using Neural Networks [paper] [preprint] [slides]
Lucas Bechberger and Elektra Kypridemou
6th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition, Palermo/Italy, July 2018

2017

Measuring Relations Between Concepts in Conceptual Spaces [paper] [preprint] [appendix] [slides]
(Award for best student paper in the technical track)
Lucas Bechberger and Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
37th SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge/UK, December 2017

A Comprehensive Implementation of Conceptual Spaces [paper] [preprint] [slides]
Lucas Bechberger and Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
5th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition, Larnaca/Cyprus, November 2017

Conceptual Spaces for Artificial Intelligence: Formalization, Domain Grounding, and Concept Formation [abstract] [slides]
Lucas Bechberger
Talk at the Workshop “Concept Learning and Reasoning in Conceptual Spaces”, Bochum/Germany, October 2017

A Thorough Formalization of Conceptual Spaces [paper] [preprint] [appendix] [slides]
Lucas Bechberger and Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
40th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Dortmund/Germany, September 2017

Towards Grounding Conceptual Spaces in Neural Representations [paper] [preprint] [slides]
Lucas Bechberger and Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
12th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning, London/UK, July 2017

Conceptual Spaces: A Bridge Between Neural and Symbolic Representations? [report] [abstract] [slides]
Lucas Bechberger
Talk at Dagstuhl Seminar “Human-Like Neural-Symbolic Computing”, Dagstuhl/Germany, May 2017

Towards Concept Formation in Conceptual Spaces [abstract] [poster] [slides]
Lucas Bechberger and Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
Poster at Interdisciplinary College 2017 (spring school), Möhnesee-Günne/Germany, March 2017

2016

Personalized News Event Retrieval for Small Talk in Social Dialog Systems [paper] [preprint]
Lucas Bechberger, Maria Schmidt, Alex Waibel and Marcello Federico
12th ITG Symposium on Speech Communication, Paderborn/Germany, October 2016, pp. 120-124

Personalized News Event Retrieval for Small Talk in Social Dialog Systems [thesis]
Lucas Bechberger
Master’s thesis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Fondazione Bruno Kessler, April 2016

2014

Predictive Analysis on Time Series [paper] [preprint]
Lucas Bechberger
Seminar paper, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , August 2014

2012

Modeling Human Memory Performance Under Influence of Cognitive Workload [thesis]
Lucas Bechberger
Bachelor’s thesis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , August 2012