Evolution of Semantic Systems

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: K<U+00fc>ppers, Bernd-Olaf. (Editor), Hahn, Udo. (Editor), Artmann, Stefan. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Technology > Philosophy.; Coding theory.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational linguistics.; Semantics.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Models and Principles.; Coding and Information Theory.; Philosophy of Technology.; Computational Linguistics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34997-3

Complex systems in nature and society make use of information for the development of their internal organization and the control of their functional mechanisms. Alongside technical aspects of storing, transmitting and processing information, the various semantic aspects of information, such as meani...

Table of Contents:

• The Emergence of Reference
• Pragmatism and the Evolution of Semantic Systems
• System Surfaces - There Is Never Just Only One Structure
• Elements of a Semantic Code
• Talking about Structures
• Toward a Theory of Information Structure
• Mechanics and Mental Change
• Semantic Technologies: A Computational Paradigm for Making Sense of Informal Meaning Structures
• What are Ontologies good for?
• Taxonomic Change as a Reflection of Progress in a Scientific Discipline
• Crystallization as a Form of Scientific Semantic Change: The Case of Thermodynamics.