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The present paper focuses on the extraction, by means of aformal logical/mathematical methodology (i.e., automatically, exclusively by rule), of concept content, as in, for example, continuous discourse. The approach to a fully formal definition of concept content ultimately is owing to a German government initiative to establish “standards” regarding concepts, in conjunction with efforts to stipulate precisely (and then, derivatively, through computer programs) data and information needs according to work role in certain government offices.
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The present research has been supported by Grant IRI9114068 from the NSF, Knowledge Models and Cognitive Systems Program. The approach discussed in this paper owes to efforts by mathematicians at the Fachbereich Mathematik of the Technische Hochschule/Darmstadt, particularly the universal algebra group headed by Rudolf Wille. Their work inspired some of our current efforts, themselves differentiated from it in part by certain influences from category theory.
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Sedelow, W.A. The formal analysis of concepts. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 25, 314–317 (1993). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03204517
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