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Valentin Boboc

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An algebraic approach to translating Japanese

We use Lambek's pregroups and the framework of compositional distributional models of language ("DisCoCat") to study translations from Japanese to English as pairs of functors. Adding decorations to pregroups we show how to handle word order changes between languages.

cs.CL

$\pi$-augmented pregroups and applications to linguistics

We enrich pregroups with a mapping which allows us to locally apply precyclic permutations to designated substrings. We prove a normalisation theorem for such algebraic structures and briefly formalise some known applications of pregroups to the analysis of clitic pronouns in certain natural languages.

cs.CL