Chunks are also used in NLP (which is part of/related to CS either way)
aka tokens
Various useful references come up on searching chunks as tokens
https://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/os/spec/archSpec/chunking.html
https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/21.1/ug-editor/topics/eppo-chunking.html
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 1:12 AM Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> wrote:
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> On 22 Jun 2019, at 14:54, Amirouche Boubekki <amirouche.boubekki@gmail.com>
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> Le ven. 21 juin 2019 à 16:27, Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> a écrit :
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>> Researchers in Cognitive Science have used graphs of chunks to represent
>> declarative knowledge for decades, and chunk is their name for an n-tuple.
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> I tried to lookup "graph of chunks" related to cognitive science. I could
> not find anything interesting outside this white paper about "accelerating
> science" [0] that intersect with my goals.
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> https://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Accelerating-Science-Whitepaper-CCC-Final2.pdf
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> Chunks are used on cognitive architectures, such as ACT-R, SOAR and
> CHREST, and is inspired by studies of human memory recall, starting with
> George Miller in 1956, and taken further by a succession of researchers.
> Gobet et al. define a chunk as “a collection of elements having strong
> associations with one another, but weak associations with elements within
> other chunks.” Cognitive Science uses computational models as the basis for
> making quantitive descriptions of different aspects of cognition including
> memory and reasoning. There are similarities to Frames and Property Graphs.
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> Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
> W3C Data Activity Lead & W3C champion for the Web of things
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