Principles of Natural Language, Logic, and Tensor Semantics (Invited Paper)

Author Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh



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Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
  • School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK

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Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh. Principles of Natural Language, Logic, and Tensor Semantics (Invited Paper). In 8th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 139, pp. 3:1-3:4, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CALCO.2019.3

Abstract

Residuated monoids model the structure of sentences. Vectors provide meaning representations for words. A functorial mapping between the two is obtained by lifting the vectors to tensors. The resulting sentence representations solve similarity, disambiguation and entailment tasks.

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  • Theory of computation → Categorical semantics
  • Computing methodologies → Natural language processing
  • General and reference → Experimentation
Keywords
  • Residuated Monoids
  • Vector Space Semantics
  • Corpora of Textual Data
  • Sentence Similarity and Disambiguation

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