Possible Worlds Research

Meaning is the human faculty that lets us speak about worlds: the real world that we live in, but also possible worlds, the ones which we imagine and which range from the trivial ‘what shall we have for dinner tonight?’ to entire fictional universes.

As part of its mission, Possible Worlds Research investigates how meaning emerges in humans, how it functionally corresponds to elements of worlds, and how it expresses itself in observable, speaker-dependent linguistic utterances. Our main methodology is computational modeling, which allows us to perform extensive testing of particular cognitive and linguistic hypotheses. The result of our investigation is then translated into reusable AI components which can be put together to create complex systems.

If you want to know more, check out the Possible Worlds GitHub organisation.