[2212.06636] Categorical Tools for Natural Language Processing
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arXiv:2212.06636 (cs)
[Submitted on 13 Dec 2022]

Title:Categorical Tools for Natural Language Processing

Authors:Giovanni de Felice
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Abstract:This thesis develops the translation between category theory and computational linguistics as a foundation for natural language processing. The three chapters deal with syntax, semantics and pragmatics. First, string diagrams provide a unified model of syntactic structures in formal grammars. Second, functors compute semantics by turning diagrams into logical, tensor, neural or quantum computation. Third, the resulting functorial models can be composed to form games where equilibria are the solutions of language processing tasks. This framework is implemented as part of DisCoPy, the Python library for computing with string diagrams. We describe the correspondence between categorical, linguistic and computational structures, and demonstrate their applications in compositional natural language processing.
Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Category Theory (math.CT)
Cite as: arXiv:2212.06636 [cs.CL]
  (or arXiv:2212.06636v1 [cs.CL] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2212.06636

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From: Giovanni de Felice [view email]
[v1] Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:12:37 UTC (6,961 KB)
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