Abstract
This book deals with applications of algebraic and logical techniques to natural language processing. To every word of the language (here English) one associates a mathematical entity, its type. Even as a sentence is uttered or received, a parallel calculation on these types will produce a grammatical analysis, without exceeding the capacity of the short term memory to store information.

Prof. Joachim Lambek has been at McGill University in Montreal since 1942, first as a student and now as Professor Emeritus of Mathematics. Working in mathematics he has also been interested in applying techniques from algebra and logic to linguistics. A well know result within the logical-linguistic community is the Syntactic Calculus he proposed in the Fifties (The mathematics of sentence structure, “American Mathematical Monthly” 65, 1958). He wrote Introduction to Higher Order Categorical Logic, with P. J. Scott (Cambridge University Press), and devoted numerous articles to mathematical linguistics, such as A computational algebraic approach to English grammar (“Syntax” 7, 2004), From word to sentence: a pregroup analysis of the object pronoun who(m) (“Journal of Logic, Language and Information” 16, 2007).

Information
Type: Monograph
Language(s): English
Year: 2008
Number of page(s): 148
Code (printed): ISBN 978-88-7699-117-2
Code (electronic): ISBN 978-88-7699-118-9 - Open Access Publication