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Quantum Physics and Linguistics

By Edward Grefenstette

Quantum Physics and Linguistics

By Edward Grefenstette

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New scientific paradigms typically consist of an expansion of the conceptual language with which we describe the world. Over the past decade, theoretical physics and quantum information theory have turned to category theory to model and reason about quantum protocols. This new use ofcategorical and algebraic tools allows a more conceptual and insightful expression of elementary events such as measurements, teleportation and entanglement operations, that were obscured in previous formalisms. Recent work in natural language semantics has begun to use these categorical methods to relate grammatical analysis and semantic representations in a unified framework for analysing language meaning, and learning meaning from a corpus. A growing body of literature on the use of categorical methodsin quantum information theory and computational linguistics shows both the need and opportunity for new research on the relation between these categorical methods and the abstract notion of information flow. This book supplies an overview of how categorical methods are used to model information flow in both physics and linguistics. It serves as an introduction to this interdisciplinary research, and provides a basis for future research and collaboration between the different communities interested inapplying category theoretic methods to their domain's open problems.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
430
Release Date:
2013-02-21
Publication Date:
2013-04-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199646295
ISBN13:
9780199646296
Weight:
807 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
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