SEMIOTICS, MODELS AND COMPUTING
(2008) 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems p.283-289- Abstract
- Recently, semiotics has begun to be related to computing. Since semiotics is about the interpretation of signs, of which language is a chief part, such an interest may seem quite reasonable. The semiotic approach is supposed to bring semantics to the computer. In this paper I discuss the realistic in this from the point of view of computers as linguistic systems, that is, as interpreters of descriptions (programs). I maintain the holistic view of language in which the parts are a whole and cannot be detached. This has the implication that computers cannot be semiotic systems since the necessary interpretation part cannot be made part of the program. From outside, a computer program can very well be considered semiotically since the... (More)
- Recently, semiotics has begun to be related to computing. Since semiotics is about the interpretation of signs, of which language is a chief part, such an interest may seem quite reasonable. The semiotic approach is supposed to bring semantics to the computer. In this paper I discuss the realistic in this from the point of view of computers as linguistic systems, that is, as interpreters of descriptions (programs). I maintain the holistic view of language in which the parts are a whole and cannot be detached. This has the implication that computers cannot be semiotic systems since the necessary interpretation part cannot be made part of the program. From outside, a computer program can very well be considered semiotically since the equivalence between computers and formal system implies that there is a well defined model (interpretation) that has to be communicated. (Less)
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- author
- Ekdahl, Bertil LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2008
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- models, semiotics, language, Computational semiotics, formal system
- host publication
- ICEIS 2008: PROCEEDINGS OF THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS, VOL ISAS-1 - INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION, VOL 1
- pages
- 283 - 289
- publisher
- INSTICC Press
- conference name
- 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
- conference dates
- 2008-06-12 - 2008-06-16
- external identifiers
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- wos:000259605700047
- scopus:55849147650
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 41a3cee2-3157-469f-8e24-6aaa3b53e90e (old id 1285870)
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-04 12:12:04
- date last changed
- 2022-01-29 23:03:28
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