A NOTATION FOR REPRESENTING CONCEPTUAL INFORMATION: AN APPLICATION TO SEMANTICS AND MECHANICAL ENGLISH PARAPHRASING

摘要

This report describes a symbolic notation to be used for representing concept like information. The notation is designed to permit representation, in a single homogeneous code, of an extremely broad range of conceptual information, including, for example, the three types of concepts Bruner (1957) bas termed conjunctive, disjunctive, and relational. The aim of the notation is to allow information to be stored and processed in a computer in a manner that is functionally equivalent, for at least some purposes, to the way humans store and process conceptual information. This would facilitate mechanical simulation of those functions people perform on the basis of their "conceptual worlds."