The Mathematics Of Language

Download or read book The Mathematics of Language written by Makoto Kanazawa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th Biennial Meeting on Mathematics in Language, MOL 12, held in Nara, Japan, in September 2011. Presented in this volume are 12 carefully selected papers, as well as the paper of the invited speaker Andreas Maletti. The papers cover such diverse topics as formal languages (string and tree transducers, grammar-independent syntactic structures, probabilistic and weighted context-free grammars, formalization of minimalist syntax), parsing and unification, lexical and compositional semantics, statistical language models, and theories of truth.