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Fig. 2.15.
Data understanding in the semantic analysis process
Because of the method of conducting semantic analysis and linguistic percep-
tion algorithms - grammar formalisms - used in its course, semantic analysis has
become the core of the operation of cognitive data analysis, interpretation and rea-
soning systems.
Semantic analysis processes which form the cornerstone of cognitive informa-
tion systems also underpin a new branch of science, which is now developing very
fast: cognitive informatics. The notion of cognitive informatics has been proposed
in publications [142], [143] and has become the starting point for a formal ap-
proach to interdisciplinary considerations of running semantic analyses in cogni-
tive areas.
Cognitive informatics is understood as the combination of cognitive science
and information science with the goal of researching mechanisms by which infor-
mation processes run in human minds. These processes are treated as elements of
natural intelligence, and they are mainly applied to engineering and technical
problems in an interdisciplinary approach.
