A thorough formalization of conceptual spaces

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-67190-1_5zbMATH Open1498.68308arXiv1706.06366OpenAlexW2654968686MaRDI QIDQ5044852FDOQ5044852

Authors: Lucas Bechberger, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger 

Publication date: 2 November 2022

Published in: KI 2017: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The highly influential framework of conceptual spaces provides a geometric way of representing knowledge. Instances are represented by points in a high-dimensional space and concepts are represented by convex regions in this space. After pointing out a problem with the convexity requirement, we propose a formalization of conceptual spaces based on fuzzy star-shaped sets. Our formalization uses a parametric definition of concepts and extends the original framework by adding means to represent correlations between different domains in a geometric way. Moreover, we define computationally efficient operations on concepts (intersection, union, and projection onto a subspace) and show that these operations can support both learning and reasoning processes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.06366

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zbMATH Keywords

fuzzy setsconceptual spacesstar-shaped sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knowledge representation (68T30)

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