2009/01/27 by P. D. Bruza, K. Kitto, Bruza, P. D. +5 · 2 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #Data Analysis #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an) #cs.CL #physics.data-an #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0901.4375
13 pages, 2 figures; To appear in Proceedings of the Third Quantum Interaction Symposium, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol 5494, Springer, 2009
arxiv created 2009/01/27 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Following an early claim by Nelson & McEvoy \citeNelson:McEvoy:2007 suggesting that word associations can display `spooky action at a distance behaviour', a serious investigation of the potentially quantum nature of such associations is currently underway. This paper presents a simple quantum model of a word association system. It is shown that a quantum model of word entanglement can recover aspects of both the Spreading Activation equation and the Spooky-activation-at-a-distance equation, both of which are used to model the activation level of words in human memory.