The following paper provides the basis for a retrieval from memory based approach to abductive inference in relation to conceptual combinations:
Kitto, K., Bruza, P.D. and Gabora, L. (2012) A quantum information retrieval approach to memory. Proceedings of the 2012 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2012)
The following paper provides a basis for testing which conceptual combinations have a non-compositional semantics: