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11 - Computer Science and Informatics

Queen Mary University of London

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Output 42 of 83 in the submission

Article title

Mathematical Foundations for a Compositional Distributional Model of

Meaning

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

Title of journal

Lambek Festschirft, special issue of Linguistic Analysis, 2010.

Article number

Volume number

abs/1003.4

Issue number

First page of article

n/a

ISSN of journal

0960-1295

Year of publication

2010

URL

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1003.4394v1.pdf

Number of additional authors

Additional information

<22>The paper opened up a new research area by presenting the first framework to successfully combine statistical natural language semantics with formal structural semantics. The technology used was derived from that developed for quantum protocols by Abramsky-Coecke (LICS04). The significance of the work was recognised in a tweet from Fernando Pereira (Research Director at Google and key potential beneficiary, and a story on the New Scientist cover (http://www.newscientist.com/issue/2790). Resulting funding (British Council and Dutch Platform Beta-Technique) supported monograph with contributions from leading linguists and categorical logicians, published by OUP http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199646296.do#.UgjbJFPaiw0 establishing area. Research underpins other submitted outputs.

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

Citation count

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

English abstract