Towards a logic of semiotic systems
Mathématiques informatique et sciences humaines, Tome 117 (1992), pp. 49-60.

L'approche rationnelle dénotationnelle de la sémantique n'est pas propre à saisir la dimension structurelle de la signification qui est immanente dans les systèmes sémiotiques. Le besoin d'une approche structurelle s'intensifie en raison d'un changement d'attitude dans le domaine de l'Intelligence Artificielle, introduit par le «Connectionism» et «l'Information retrieval». Cet article présente ce type d'approche sémantique fondée sur la phénoménologie et l'autopoesis et propose une formalisation par la théorie des catégories.

The rationalistic denotational approach to semantics is not adequate for capturing the structural dimension of meaning, which is immanent in semiotic systems. The demand for a structural approach to semantics is intensified by a turn in Artificial Intelligence, introduced by Connectionism and Information Retrieval. This paper presents such a structural approach to semantics founded on the phenomenological and autopoietic paradigms and proposes a formalization with the help of category theory.

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Thiopoulos, Constantin. Towards a logic of semiotic systems. Mathématiques informatique et sciences humaines, Tome 117 (1992), pp. 49-60. http://www.numdam.org/item/MSH_1992__117__49_0/

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