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Compositionality

Central concept: how meaning of wholes depends on meanings of parts and their structural arrangement; multiple formulations explored (Frege, Schrödinger, Whitehead, LEGO).

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  • Bob Coecke
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    Lead presenter and primary author of the compositional intelligence framework; affiliated with Quantinuum and Oxford; key figure in quantum diagrammatics and compositional AI theory.

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  • LEGO Compositionality
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    Variant of compositional theory mentioned in summary; represents rigid, modular composition model.

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Concepts (5)

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  • composition
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    The wiring together of processes to form new processes in process theory
  • Frege Compositionality
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    Formal linguistic principle: meaning of a whole depends only on meanings of parts and how they are fitted together (bottom-up meaning flow).
  • DisCoCirc
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    Compositional framework for circuits and diagrammatic reasoning; developed at UCL/BBC.
  • Frege's Context Principle
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    Complementary principle to Frege compositionality: word meaning only meaningful in sentence context (top-down meaning flow).
  • ambiguity
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    Multiple possible meanings for words like Alice, disambiguated by context; harder when grammar and meaning intertwine

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    Primary guiding question for the paper; explores multiple formulations and uses of the term.
  • Complete Compositionalityframework0.892
    Strongest form of compositional theory requiring full decomposability and meaningful parts.
  • Whitehead Compositionalityframework0.859
    Process theory variant requiring all ingredients have clear meaningful ontological counterparts in reality.
  • Compositional Semanticsconcept0.833
    Denotation function µ decomposes over operations so meaning of compound expressions follows from meanings of parts
  • Compositional Intelligenceconcept0.820
  • compositional AIconcept0.813
    Artificial intelligence built on compositional principles, including NLP and beyond
  • Compositional Reasoningconcept0.810
    Modular reasoning enabled by monoid and other algebraic laws; central to maintainability and correctness of functional systems.
  • composition as interactionconcept0.790
    Modeling function application via feedback loops between processes, ping-ponging tokens.