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A Semiotic Approach to Complex Systems

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Aspects of Automatic Text Analysis

Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ((STUDFUZZ,volume 209))

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A key topic in the work of Burghard Rieger is the notion of meaning. To explore this notion, he and his collaborators developed a most sophisticated approach combining theoretical ideas and concepts of semiotics with empirical and numerical tools of computational linguistics (see [29] for a most recent comprehensive account). In the present contribution, relations of Rieger’s achievements to some issues of interest in the physics and philosophy of complex systems will be addressed.

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Atmanspacher, H. (2007). A Semiotic Approach to Complex Systems. In: Aspects of Automatic Text Analysis. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 209. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37522-7_4

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