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International Symposium on Quantum Interaction

QI 2013: Quantum Interaction pp 134–146Cite as

Measuring Conceptual Entanglement in Collections of Documents

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Conceptual entanglement is a crucial phenomenon in quantum cognition because it implies that classical probabilities cannot model non-compositional conceptual phenomena. While several psychological experiments have been developed to test conceptual entanglement, this has not been explored in the context of Natural Language Processing. In this paper, we apply the hypothesis that words of a document are traces of the concepts that a person has in mind when writing the document. Therefore, if these concepts are entangled, we should be able to observe traces of their entanglement in the documents. In particular, we test conceptual entanglement by contrasting language simulations with results obtained from a text corpus. Our analysis indicates that conceptual entanglement is strongly linked to the way in which language is structured. We discuss the implications of this finding in the context of conceptual modeling and of Natural Language Processing.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, Canada

    Tomás Veloz

  2. School of Computer Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

    Xiaozhao Zhao

  3. Center Leo Apostel (Clea) and Department of Mathematics, Brussels Free University (VUB), Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussel, Belgium

    Tomás Veloz & Diederik Aerts

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  2. School of Management, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

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  3. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Veloz, T., Zhao, X., Aerts, D. (2014). Measuring Conceptual Entanglement in Collections of Documents. In: Atmanspacher, H., Haven, E., Kitto, K., Raine, D. (eds) Quantum Interaction. QI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8369. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54943-4_12

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