Martha Lewis
Interests
My interests are in modelling the way in which humans use concepts, and specifically, in how new concepts can be formed from the combination of existing ones. Humans can combine concepts in unpredictable ways, and I use methods from computational linguistics, category theory, and quantum theory to investigate these phenomena. I am interested in applying these methods to conceptual spaces and evolutionary semantics.
Biography
Ph.D. Complexity Sciences, University of Bristol, 'Modelling Compositionality of Vague Concepts', April 2015
M.Res., Complexity Sciences, University of Bristol, January 2012
M.Sc., Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems, University of Sussex, September 2010
BA Joint Honours Mathematics and Philosophy, Balliol College, University of Oxford, 2003
Selected Publications
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Hierarchical conceptual spaces for concept combination
Martha Lewis and Jonathan Lawry
In Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 237. Pages 204–227. 2016.
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Graded Entailment for Compositional Distributional Semantics
Desislava Bankova‚ Bob Coecke‚ Martha Lewis and Daniel Marsden
2016.
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A Compositional Explanation of the ‘Pet Fish' Phenomenon
Bob Coecke and Martha Lewis
2015.
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