An algebraic approach to translating Japanese
Computation and Language
2023-08-01 v1 Category Theory
Abstract
We use Lambek's pregroups and the framework of compositional distributional models of language ("DisCoCat") to study translations from Japanese to English as pairs of functors. Adding decorations to pregroups we show how to handle word order changes between languages.
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@article{arxiv.2303.05834,
title = {An algebraic approach to translating Japanese},
author = {Valentin Boboc},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.05834},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
20 pages, multiple diagrams and glosses