A generalised quantifier theory of natural language in categorical compositional distributional semantics with bialgebras
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Publication:5377698
DOI10.1017/S0960129518000324zbMATH Open1422.68227arXiv1602.01635OpenAlexW2964053885MaRDI QIDQ5377698FDOQ5377698
Authors: Jules Hedges, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh 
Publication date: 27 May 2019
Published in: Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Categorical compositional distributional semantics is a model of natural language; it combines the statistical vector space models of words with the compositional models of grammar. We formalise in this model the generalised quantifier theory of natural language, due to Barwise and Cooper. The underlying setting is a compact closed category with bialgebras. We start from a generative grammar formalisation and develop an abstract categorical compositional semantics for it, then instantiate the abstract setting to sets and relations and to finite dimensional vector spaces and linear maps. We prove the equivalence of the relational instantiation to the truth theoretic semantics of generalised quantifiers. The vector space instantiation formalises the statistical usages of words and enables us to, for the first time, reason about quantified phrases and sentences compositionally in distributional semantics.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01635
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