What the <0.70, 1.17, 0.99, 1.07> is a symbol?

Minds and Machines

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-105

  Berkeley, Istvan S N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Interpretation; Subsymbols; Symbols; Tokens

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SCIENCE; TAXONOMIES;

COGNITIVE SCIENCE; COMPLEX SYMBOLS; SUBSYMBOLS; TOKENS;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 38549143065     PISSN: 09246495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11023-007-9086-y     Document Type: Article

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