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This paper proves a homomorphism between extensional formal semantics and distributional vector space semantics, demonstrating structural compatibility. Formal semantics models meaning as reference, using logical structures to map…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Daniel Quigley

Natural language processing (NLP) is at the forefront of great advances in contemporary AI, and it is arguably one of the most challenging areas of the field. At the same time, in the area of Quantum Computing (QC), with the steady growth…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Konstantinos Meichanetzidis , Alexis Toumi , Giovanni de Felice , Bob Coecke

A structural time series model additively decomposes into generative, semantically-meaningful components, each of which depends on a vector of parameters. We demonstrate that considering each generative component together with its vector of…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-16 David Rushing Dewhurst

The Categorical Compositional Distributional (DisCoCat) Model is a powerful mathematical model for composing the meaning of sentences in natural languages. Since we can think of biological sequences as the "language of life", it is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-14 Yanying Wu , Quanlong Wang

The sequential structure of language, and the order of words in a sentence specifically, plays a central role in human language processing. Consequently, in designing computational models of language, the de facto approach is to present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Rishi Bommasani

Important variables of processes are often categorical, i.e. names or labels representing, e.g. categories of inputs, or types of reactors or a sequence of steps. In this work, we use Natural Language Processing Models to derive embeddings…

Natural language semantics has recently sought to combine the complementary strengths of formal and distributional approaches to meaning. More specifically, proposals have been put forward to augment formal semantic machinery with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Noortje J. Venhuizen , Petra Hendriks , Matthew W. Crocker , Harm Brouwer

This article is intended as a reference guide to various notions of monoidal categories and their associated string diagrams. It is hoped that this will be useful not just to mathematicians, but also to physicists, computer scientists, and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-31 Peter Selinger

In this paper we develop a novel mathematical formalism for the modeling of neural information networks endowed with additional structure in the form of assignments of resources, either computational or metabolic or informational. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Yuri Manin , Matilde Marcolli

Techniques in which words are represented as vectors have proved useful in many applications in computational linguistics, however there is currently no general semantic formalism for representing meaning in terms of vectors. We present a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Daoud Clarke

Chinese word segmentation is a foundational task in natural language processing (NLP), with far-reaching effects on syntactic analysis. Unlike alphabetic languages like English, Chinese lacks explicit word boundaries, making segmentation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yige Chen , Zelong Li , Cindy Zhang , Changbing Yang , Amandisa Cady , Ai Ka Lee , Zejiao Zeng , Eunkyul Leah Jo , Haihua Pan , Jungyeul Park

The aim of this paper is twofold: first we will use vector space distributional compositional categorical models of meaning to compare the meaning of sentences in Irish and in English (and thus ascertain when a sentence is the translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Brian Tyrrell

In order to achieve deep natural language understanding, syntactic constituent parsing is a vital step, highly demanded by many artificial intelligence systems to process both text and speech. One of the most recent proposals is the use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Daniel Fernández-González , Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

In this paper we provide a unifying description of different types of semantics of modal logic found in the literature via the framework of topological categories. In the style of categorical logic, we establish an exact correspondence…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Lingyuan Ye

Symmetric monoidal categories (SMCs) are a common framework for reasoning about computation, focusing on the parallel and sequential compositionality of operations. String diagrams are a ubiquitous and powerful tool for reasoning about…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Benjamin Caldwell , William Spencer , Aleks Kissinger , Robert Rand

The development of compositional distributional models of semantics reconciling the empirical aspects of distributional semantics with the compositional aspects of formal semantics is a popular topic in the contemporary literature. This…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-04-30 Edward Grefenstette

Text classification helps analyse texts for semantic meaning and relevance, by mapping the words against this hierarchy. An analysis of various types of texts is invaluable to understanding both their semantic meaning, as well as their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Chaitanya Chadha , Vandit Gupta , Deepak Gupta , Ashish Khanna

The meaning of a natural language utterance is largely determined from its syntax and words. Additionally, there is evidence that humans process an utterance by separating knowledge about the lexicon from syntax knowledge. Theories from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Tristan Thrush

Many tools used to process programs, like compilers, analyzers, or verifiers, perform transformations on their intermediate program representation, like abstract syntax trees. Implementing such program transformations is a non-trivial task,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Michael Hanus , Steven Libby

Canonical morphological segmentation is the process of analyzing words into the standard (aka underlying) forms of their constituent morphemes. This is a core task in language documentation, and NLP systems have the potential to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Enora Rice , Ali Marashian , Luke Gessler , Alexis Palmer , Katharina von der Wense