The Beginnings of Contextual Concepts

If we assume the parsing of sentences can provide us with subject verb object (see idiomatic conceptualization) type structures to work with, a next logical question might be 'what do we do with this'? In other words what becomes of this datum?

We could catalog it and maybe save it in its original format (audio, for example) and we could even apply OCR and natural language processing against the OCR output and store it in a searchable format, but at the end of the day, there is a bigger question to be asked; what are we trying to create from this input and how do we intend to use that.

It is not a reach to summarize the answer to this question as 'we are trying to reduce the written/spoken word to objects'. A more technical explanation might be 'I am attempting to convert words to concepts'. So we are left to ask 'what is a concept'?

Also of interest is the question 'are concepts to be interpreted literally?' That is to say, if we can define the attributes and methods of a concept, do these remain constant over time or do even these core constituents change, and if they do change, what might cause them to change and how?

So when we think about a concept, perhaps what we are thinking about is a thing that changes its interpretation based upon the context it is presented in. I will call this 'contextual concepts', to indicate I believe that a concept changes based upon its context, and its context changes based upon the expression/evaluation of the concept, in time, within a given system.




We next ask, what is a context?