Pierre Mercuriali – Tuesday 28 march 2023 – from 2pm to 13pm – Conference Room – IECL
Let us seek to understand and automate the way historians understand a historical text. Let us assume that when reading the text, a historian constructs “formulas”, which he manipulates to reach new conclusions. These formulas correspond to relations between words, which we express, in a purely syntactic way, as hypergraphs. Can we reconstruct the historian’s understanding of the text from the hypergraph? What is the effect of a perturbation of the hypergraph on the semantics it expresses? Let us illustrate this with a test case on the notion of light in Aristotle’s De Anima.
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