Michele Pasin / Quotes

Computers manipulate symbols without meaning

as far as human cognition is concerned, such achievements are simply irrelevant. And they are irrelevant for a deep reason: the computer operates by…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #symbols #syntax #semantics #artificial-intelligence

Syntax is not semantics

The distinction between syntax and semantics is so important for the rest of the argument of this book that I want to say a little more about it here. In…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #syntax #semantics #meaning #language

URIs identify, URLs locate

URIs identify and URLs locate; however, locations are also identifications, so every URL is also a URI, but there are URIs which are not URLs. Examples Roger…

Http - What's The Difference Between A Uri And A Url? - Stack Overflow #Uniform-Resource-Identifiers #syntax #Resource-Identifiers

Building a citation graph from full texts

..the problem of building a citation graph by reliably extracting references from full-­texts and detecting their true targets. This is a fairly complicated…

The Diggicore Project: Aggregating And Mining The World Of Open Access Articles #citation-graph #graph #API

Computational ontologies and knowledge bases

We take a computational ontology to be a directed acyclic graph where nodes represent concepts and the links between concepts represent the taxonomic “isa”…

From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy #computational-ontology #ontology #graph #nodes #concept

Conceptual graphs

Indexes, glossaries and thesauri are all ways of mapping the knowledge structures that exist implicitly in books and other sources of information. In the…

The Tao Of Topic Maps #graph #nets #logic #field-of-AI