Formal Ontologies and Semantic Technologies: A “Dual Process” Proposal for Concept Representation
One of the main problems of most contemporary concept-oriented knowledge representation systems is one of technical convenience. Namely the representation of knowledge in prototypical terms and the possibility of exploiting forms of typicality-based conceptual reasoning, are not permitted. In contra...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Éditions Kimé
2014-10-01
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| Series: | Philosophia Scientiæ |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/1005 |
| Summary: | One of the main problems of most contemporary concept-oriented knowledge representation systems is one of technical convenience. Namely the representation of knowledge in prototypical terms and the possibility of exploiting forms of typicality-based conceptual reasoning, are not permitted. In contrast, in the cognitive sciences, evidence exists in favour of prototypical concepts, and non-monotonic forms of conceptual reasoning have been extensively studied. This “cognitive” representational and reasoning gap constitutes a problem for computational systems, since prototypical information plays a crucial role in many relevant tasks. Inspired by the so-called dual process theories of reasoning and rationality, we propose that conceptual representation in computational systems should rely on (at least) two representational components, that are specialized in dealing with different kinds of reasoning processes. In this article, the theoretical and computational advantages of such “dual process” proposals are presented and briefly compared to other logic-oriented solutions adopted to confront the same problem. |
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| ISSN: | 1281-2463 1775-4283 |