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Cognitive Semantics : Meaning and Cognition

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5. Project goals <strong>and</strong> current project work<br />

CONCEPTUAL ENGINEERING 169<br />

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The project ‘Conceptual Engineering’ has as its goal an experimental implementation<br />

of the model described above. In particular, we are interested in<br />

investigating the processual order between the superimposition mechanisms<br />

in the implementation, such as domain identification, predication mapping,<br />

ascent etc. It is also highly relevant that the valence suggesting mechanisms<br />

<strong>and</strong> the schema population have the proper processuality.<br />

During the first six months of our project, we have been implementing the<br />

morpheme stream <strong>and</strong> schema population mechanisms. Although we still<br />

have no lexicon <strong>and</strong> much of the semantics is r<strong>and</strong>omly generated, the<br />

grammatical expectations combined with the calculation of behaghelian distance,<br />

with correspondence assignment but completely without type-checking<br />

of any sort, gave outputs for several morpheme streams where the composite<br />

with the highest survivability was composed of the correct valence relations.<br />

This mechanism then served as the frame within which implementations

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