Category: Conferences

A few weeks ago, I got the notification that my paper “Measuring Relations between Concepts in Conceptual Spaces” [1] (preprint available here) was accepted at the British SGAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

One of the question that I discuss there is posed in the title of this blog post: What’s the size of a concept?

In general, one can say that the size of a concept in a conceptual space tells you something about its specificity: Small concepts (like Granny Smith) are more specific, whereas large concepts (like fruit) are more general.

But how exactly can we measure the size of such a concept within my proposed formalization? My paper [1] gives a mathematical response to that, and today I would like to sketch the basic idea behind it.

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Recently, another one of my papers [1] (look at the preprint here) has been accepted at the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence. It is a quite technical paper with a lot of formulas, but I’ll try to illustrate the overall high-level idea in this and one or two future blog posts.

Today I would like to talk about the starting point of the research presented in this paper: The observation that convex regions in a conceptual space are highly problematic if we want to represent correlations between domains.

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