https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1348 Index terms fr 0 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=4520 Evidence obtained by computer analysis confirms the scientific validity of the now wide-spread use of semiotic-linguistic nomenclature to describe the workings of the genetic apparatus. It shows that both natural languages with their semantic speech stuctures, which are sign representations of human mental activity and thought, and genetic texts(ie DNA/ RNA and proteins, etc) exhibit a strategically close geometrical fractal framework. A similar analysis of random texts of the same characters leads to the loss of this framework. This not only points to a causal supergenetic relationship between such texts that proceeds at some level in the demonstrated fractal framework, but that, for example, Chomsky's concept of a universal grammar, in relation to all forms of human languages (including mathematics and computer languages), is probably not only correct but is naturally genetically inherent. Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:53:01 +0200 Mon, 14 Oct 2024 12:55:05 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=4520 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1702 We are concerned with the problem of summarizing the contents of a coherent text. In this paper we argue that complex units of symbols like sentences, for example, are signs and the meaning of a text arises via their interaction. We introduce a model for the generation of summaries and illustrate its potential by a realistic example. Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:53:42 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:29:08 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1702 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=2364 What we think is part of reality and at least partly determined by reality at the same time. The advent of knowledge engineering asks for a shift from lifeless representational and blind reductionist models towards a relational and teleological interpretation of cognition in order to embed the cognitive events in processes of meaning production or semeiosis. Such embedding is determined by the properties of perception (the senses) and the types of distinctions that can be made by semeiosis. The selection of elements in such processes that are formalizable asks for a model in which the phases that make up the process, the decision moments and their degrees of freedom ale clearly indicated. In this paper we will outline such a model for two levels : the level of sign recognition and the level of response to a sign. The decision moments will only be indicated. The practical importance of this structure lies in its potential to be interpreted as a methodolory for (formal) specification. Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:34:54 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 15:04:46 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=2364 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1344 This paper deals with the ongoing research on conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), introducing the notion of metaform, in order to link CMT with other dimensions of cultural symbolism, not just language. Specifically, it is argued that conceptual metaphors are types of forms that are created by various associative processes that can be called layering processes. Each layer onstitutes a type of abstraction that itself becomes a source for further abstract thinking nad modes of representation. Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:18:37 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:35:15 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1344 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=936 In the beginning, a short survey of general semiotics is given in modern terminology. The broad spectra of signs and of descriptive semiotics are reviewed with special emphasis on biological applications. It is shown that a tool for description and analysis in modern mathematical biology must offer a chance to handle structures and patterns in an adequate and comfortable manner; hence fundamental "pattern-related operations" are characterized. A discussion of the role of information in biology leads to the concept of pragmatic information, which is also studied in its relations with other perspective notions, like meaning, interpretation, and complexity. Finally, arguments are given for the position that biology cannot be completely grounded upon or reduced to physics; at the same time, cues for a future research are presented which may lead to a unified description of biological and other processes. Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:36:16 +0200 Mon, 07 Oct 2024 15:35:56 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=936