
From Information to Knowledge
Conceptual and Content Analysis by Computer
Intellect Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. November 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-1-871516-50-0 (ISBN)
Description
These papers explore the linguistic, philosophical and computational problems encountered when attempting to attribute meaning, whether to words or to electronic data. This volume argues that the search for a theory of human thinking and knowledge now crosses all disciplinary boundaries with system biology, biophysics and neuroscience having as much relevance as philosophy and linguistics. This work maintains that the computer is an instrument for imposing order, that language cannot be grasped without a system of order superimposed by the human mind and that there is a level of thinking that is separate from language. The book suggests that those working in the fields of science and the humanities should find common ground not within language itself, but on a level outside language - the level of thinking and experience.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Intellect
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Illustrations, maps
ISBN-13
978-1-871516-50-0 (9781871516500)
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Content
The SACAO project - using computation toward textual data analysis in the social sciences; computer-assisted text analysis; computer tools for cognitive stylistics; terrorist rhetoric - texture and architecture; an outline of knowledge-based text analysis; ideography in computer-aided content analysis; "new archaeology" and statistics - factor analysis and attic vases export patterns; intelligent information retrieval - an application in the field of historical biographical data; instability, networks and political parties - a political history expert system prototype; knowledge extraction from ethnopoetic texts by multivariate statistical methods. (Part contents)