Generating Grounded Representations: A Mathematical Schema

Learning Grounded Representations

Volume

Papers from the 2001 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

This extended abstract digests a formal mathematical schema for the generation of representations over basic sensory motor neural perceptions. This representation can then be applied for a broad spectrum of cognitive and behavioral mechanisms. Category theoretical constructs provide tools of rigour that capture a structural essence but avoid over determinism. The mathematical setting systematizes the grounding of taxonomic hierarchies, compound concepts, and organization for both access and inference. It also provides computational basis for the adjustment of the representation in view of perceptual changes.