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We propose a new algebraic framework to discuss and classify recognizable tree languages, and to characterize interesting classes of such languages. Our algebraic tool, called preclones, encompasses the classical notion of syntactic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zoltan Esik , Pascal Weil

These notes present the essentials of first- and second-order monadic logics on strings with introductory purposes. We discuss Monadic First-Order logic and show that it is strictly less expressive than Finite-State Automata, in that it…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Dino Mandrioli , Davide Martinenghi , Angelo Morzenti , Matteo Pradella , Matteo Rossi

We discuss what it means for a symmetric monoidal category to be a module over a commutative semiring category. Each of the categories of (1) cartesian monoidal categories, (2) semiadditive categories, and (3) connective spectra can be…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-29 John D. Berman

Process theories provide a powerful framework for describing compositional structures across diverse fields, from quantum mechanics to computational linguistics. Traditionally, they have been formalized using symmetric monoidal categories…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-12 John H. Selby , Maria E. Stasinou , Matt Wilson , Bob Coecke

Characterisations theorems serve as important tools in model theory and can be used to assess and compare the expressive power of temporal languages used for the specification and verification of properties in formal methods. While complete…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Massimo Benerecetti , Laura Bozzelli , Fabio Mogavero , Adriano Peron

Linearly bounded Turing machines have been mainly studied as acceptors for context-sensitive languages. We define a natural class of infinite automata representing their observable computational behavior, called linearly bounded graphs.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-25 Arnaud Carayol , Antoine Meyer

We develop a theory of adjunctions in semigroup categories, i.e. monoidal categories without a unit object. We show that a rigid semigroup category is promonoidal, and thus one can naturally adjoin a unit object to it. This extends the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Mateusz Stroiński

We give a simpler proof using automata theory of a recent result of Kapovich, Weidmann and Myasnikov according to which so-called benign graphs of groups preserve decidability of the generalized word problem. These include graphs of groups…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-05-28 Markus Lohrey , Benjamin Steinberg

We present graph-based translation models which translate source graphs into target strings. Source graphs are constructed from dependency trees with extra links so that non-syntactic phrases are connected. Inspired by phrase-based models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Liangyou Li , Andy Way , Qun Liu

This study investigates the relationship between the phonological and morphological structure of Polish words and their meanings using Distributional Semantics. In the present analysis, we ask whether there is a relationship between the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Paula Orzechowska , R. Harald Baayen

We introduce string diagrams for physical duoidal categories (normal $\otimes$-symmetric duoidal categories): they consist of string diagrams with wires forming a zigzag-free partial order and order-preserving nodes whose inputs and outputs…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Mario Román

For predual categories C and D we establish isomorphisms between opfibrations representing local varieties of languages in C, local pseudovarieties of D-monoids, and finitely generated profinite D-monoids. The global sections of these…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Liang-Ting Chen , Henning Urbat

The principle behind algebraic language theory for various kinds of structures, such as words or trees, is to use a compositional function from the structures into a finite set. To talk about compositionality, one needs some way of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-18 Mikołaj Bojańczyk

We show that in any symmetric monoidal category, if a weight for colimits is absolute, then the resulting colimit of any diagram of dualizable objects is again dualizable. Moreover, in this case, if an endomorphism of the colimit is induced…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Kate Ponto , Michael Shulman

In category theory, the use of string diagrams is well known to aid in the intuitive understanding of certain concepts, particularly when dealing with adjunctions and monoidal categories. We show that string diagrams are also useful in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Kenji Nakahira

A general overview of the phenomenon of automatic continuity of homomorphisms between Polish groups is given. In particular, we study variants and improvements of the closed graph theorem, applying these to the problem of continuity of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Christian Rosendal , Luis Carlos Suarez

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

We prove that a minimal automaton has a minimal adjacency matrix rank and a minimal adjacency matrix nullity using equitable partition (from graph spectra theory) and Nerode partition (from automata theory). This result naturally introduces…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Ryoma Sin'ya

The aim of this thesis is to present an extension to the string graphs of Dixon, Duncan and Kissinger that allows the finite representation of certain infinite families of graphs and graph rewrite rules, and to demonstrate that a logic can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Alexander Merry

We propose a categorial grammar based on classical multiplicative linear logic. This can be seen as an extension of abstract categorial grammars (ACG) and is at least as expressive. However, constituents of {\it linear logic grammars (LLG)}…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Sergey Slavnov