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Game semantics describe the interactive behavior of proofs by interpreting formulas as games on which proofs induce strategies. Such a semantics is introduced here for capturing dependencies induced by quantifications in first-order…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-01-27 Samuel Mimram

We propose a mathematical framework for a unification of the distributional theory of meaning in terms of vector space models, and a compositional theory for grammatical types, for which we rely on the algebra of Pregroups, introduced by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2010-03-24 Bob Coecke , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh , Stephen Clark

We provide an overview of the hybrid compositional distributional model of meaning, developed in Coecke et al. (arXiv:1003.4394v1 [cs.CL]), which is based on the categorical methods also applied to the analysis of information flow in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-06-08 Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh , Edward Grefenstette

Categorical compositional distributional semantics is an approach to modelling language that combines the success of vector-based models of meaning with the compositional power of formal semantics. However, this approach was developed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Martha Lewis

We develop a categorical compositional distributional semantics for Lambek Calculus with a Relevant Modality !L*, which has a limited edition of the contraction and permutation rules. The categorical part of the semantics is a monoidal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Lachlan McPheat , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh , Hadi Wazni , Gijs Wijnholds

Game semantics aim at describing the interactive behaviour of proofs by interpreting formulas as games on which proofs induce strategies. In this article, we introduce a game semantics for a fragment of first order propositional logic. One…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Samuel Mimram

We propose applying the categorical compositional scheme of [6] to conceptual space models of cognition. In order to do this we introduce the category of convex relations as a new setting for categorical compositional semantics, emphasizing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Josef Bolt , Bob Coecke , Fabrizio Genovese , Martha Lewis , Daniel Marsden , Robin Piedeleu

We propose a general framework to study language emergence through signaling games with neural agents. Using a continuous latent space, we are able to (i) train using backpropagation, (ii) show that discrete messages nonetheless naturally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Nur Geffen Lan , Emmanuel Chemla , Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

The method of constructing of Grothendieck's topology basing on a neighbourhood grammar, defined on the category of syntax diagrams is described in the article. Syntax diagrams of a formal language are the multigraphs with nodes, signed by…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-29 Vladimir Lapshin

We develop the compositional theory of active inference by introducing activity, functorially relating statistical games to the dynamical systems which play them, using the new notion of approximate inference doctrine. In order to exhibit…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-08-26 Toby St. Clere Smithe

This paper presents a monoidal category whose morphisms are games (in the sense of game theory, not game semantics) and an associated diagrammatic language. The two basic operations of a monoidal category, namely categorical composition and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-23 Jules Hedges

We give an introduction to constructive category theory by answering two guiding computational questions. The first question is: how do we compute the set of all natural transformations between two finitely presented functors like…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Sebastian Posur

A prototypical example of categorial grammars are those based on Lambek calculus, i.e. noncommutative intuitionistic linear logic. However, it has been noted that purely noncommutative operations are often not sufficient for modeling even…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Sergey Slavnov

Compositionality is a widely discussed property of natural languages, although its exact definition has been elusive. We focus on the proposal that compositionality can be assessed by measuring meaning-form correlation. We analyze…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Timothee Mickus , Timothée Bernard , Denis Paperno

Pursuing a new approach to the study of infinite games in combinatorics, we introduce the categories $\mathbf{Game}_{A}$ and $\mathbf{Game}_{B}$ and improve some classical results concerning topological games related to the duality between…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Matheus Duzi , Paul Szeptycki , Walter Tholen

We introduce open games as a compositional foundation of economic game theory. A compositional approach potentially allows methods of game theory and theoretical computer science to be applied to large-scale economic models for which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Neil Ghani , Jules Hedges , Viktor Winschel , Philipp Zahn

This article is an introduction to formal languages from the point of view of combinatorial group theory. Group theoretic applications are included and language classes are defined algebraically.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Robert Gilman

We discuss an extension of the standard logical rules (functional application and abstraction) in Categorial Grammar (CG), in order to deal with some specific cases of polysemy. We borrow from Generative Lexicon theory which proposes the…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Anne-Marie Mineur , Paul Buitelaar

Understanding the semantic relationships between terms is a fundamental task in natural language processing applications. While structured resources that can express those relationships in a formal way, such as ontologies, are still scarce,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Vivian S. Silva , Siegfried Handschuh , André Freitas

We introduce operational semantics into games. And based on the operational semantics, we establish a full algebra of games, including basic algebra of games, algebra of concurrent games, recursion and abstraction. The algebra can be used…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Yong Wang