Computational semiotics

Semiotics
	General concepts Biosemiotics · Code; Computational semiotics; Connotation · Decode · Denotation; Encode · Lexical · Modality; Salience · Sign · Sign relation; Sign relational complex · Semiosis; Semiosphere · Literary semiotics; Triadic relation · Umwelt · Value
	Methods Commutation test; Paradigmatic analysis; Syntagmatic analysis
	Semioticians Charles Peirce · Thomas Sebeok; Ferdinand de Saussure; Jakob von Uexküll; Umberto Eco · Louis Hjelmslev; Roman Jakobson · Juri Lotman; Roland Barthes · Marcel Danesi; John Deely · Roberta Kevelson; Eero Tarasti · Kalevi Kull
	Related topics Structuralism; Aestheticization; Semiotics of Ideal Beauty; Postmodernity
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Computational semiotics is an interdisciplinary field that applies, conducts, and draws on research in logic, mathematics, the theory and practice of computation, formal and natural language studies, the cognitive sciences generally, and semiotics proper. A common theme of this work is the adoption of a sign-theoretic perspective on issues of artificial intelligence and knowledge representation. Many of its applications lie in the field of computer-human interaction (CHI).

One part of this field, known as algebraic semiotics, combines aspects of algebraic specification and social semiotics, and has been applied to user interface design and to the representation of mathematical proofs.

Bibliography

Andersen, P.B. (1991). A Theory of Computer Semiotics, Cambridge University Press.

de Souza, C.S., The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005.

Hugo, J. (2005), "The Semiotics of Control Room Situation Awareness", Fourth International Cyberspace Conference on Ergonomics, Virtual Conference, 15 Sep ? 15 Oct 2005. Eprint

Mili, A., Desharnais, J., Mili, F., with Frappier, M., Computer Program Construction, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 1994. ? Introduction to Tarskian relation theory and its applications within the relational programming paradigm.