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Substructural fixed-point theorems and the diagonal argument: theme and variations

open access: yes, 2023
This article re-examines Lawvere\u27s abstract, category-theoretic proof of the fixed-point theorem whose contrapositive is a `universal\u27 diagonal argument. The main result is that the necessary axioms for both the fixed-point theorem and the diagonal
Roberts, David Michael   +2 more
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Compositionality in Truth Conditional Pragmatics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In the past decade various linguists and philosophers (e.g. Pagin, Pelletier, Recanati, Westerståhl, Lasersohn) have proposed a weakening of the standard interpretation of compositionality for propositional content.
Briciu, Adrian
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German particle verbs: Compositionality at the syntax-semantics interface

open access: yesJournal of Language Modelling, 2018
Particle verbs represent a type of multi-word expression composed of a base verb and a particle. The meaning of the particle verb is often, but not always, derived from the meaning of the base verb, sometimes in quite complex ways.
Stefan Bott, Sabine Schulte im Walde
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Semantic Holism in Scientific Language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Whether or not meaning is compositional has been a major issue in linguistics and formal philosophy of language for the last two decades. Semantic holism is widely and plausibly considered as an objection to the principle of semantic compositionality ...
Andreas, Holger, Holger Andreas
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Compositionality in al-Farabi [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت اسرا, 2015
Compositionality is an important principle in new semantics. On this principle, the meanings of compound words are determined by the meaning of its parts and the way in which how to be composed. Every system of semantics must be compositional on a priory
bahaodin movahhed abtahi   +2 more
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COMPOSITIONALITY/NON-COMPOSITIONALITY OF IDIOMS: NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS’ CONSTRAINTS TO COMPREHENSION

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2016
Informed by Jackendoff’s (1997) Representational Modularity (RM) Hypothesis which states that, similar to how people make sense of categories, they also systematically make sense of language.
Yvonne Pedria Velasco
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Exploring explainable AI: category theory insights into machine learning algorithms

open access: yesMachine Learning: Science and Technology, 2023
Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) is a growing field that aims to increase the transparency and interpretability of machine learning (ML) models. The aim of this work is to use the categorical properties of learning algorithms in conjunction with
Ares Fabregat-Hernández   +2 more
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À contrecœur ‘unwillingly’, de bon cœur ‘heartily’, de tout cœur ‘with all my heart’: On the compositionality of idioms

open access: yesKalbotyra, 2021
This study deals with meaning construction in idiomatic phrases (locutions figées/figements). We focus on three French idioms involving the word cœur (à contrecœur, de bon cœur, de tout cœur).
Thomas Bertin
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Finding Your Way from the Bed to the Kitchen: Re-enacting and Re-combining Sensorimotor Episodes Learned from Human Demonstration

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2016
Several simulation theories have been proposed as an explanation for how humans and other agents internalize an inner world that allows them to simulate interactions with the external real world -- prospectively and retrospectively.
Erik A. Billing   +5 more
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Call combinations in birds and the evolution of compositional syntax. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Biology, 2018
Syntax is the set of rules for combining words into phrases, providing the basis for the generative power of linguistic expressions. In human language, the principle of compositionality governs how words are combined into a larger unit, the meaning of ...
Toshitaka N Suzuki   +2 more
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