From: Charles Wells <charles@abstractmath.org>
To: Michael Fourman <Michael.Fourman@ed.ac.uk>, catbb <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: categories and linguistic?
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:33:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1MmoLj-0002f6-WB@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
Linguists use the word "category" to mean what computer scientists would
call a variable symbol in a context-sensitive grammar.
Charles Wells
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Michael Fourman
<Michael.Fourman@ed.ac.uk>wrote:
> You may also want to look at
>
> groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/ccg/
>
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatory_categorial_grammar
>
> as well as
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorial_grammar
> which includes some historical notes.
>
> On 10 Sep 2009, at 21:25, John Baez wrote:
>
> Pierre Cardscia wrote:
>>
>> it seemed, but I'm not sure, that the Montreal school worked on that
>> subject
>>
>>> in the past, but this information is unconfirmed ...
>>>
>>>
>> Joachim (= Jim) Lambek, at McGill University, has studied
>> linguistics using
>> category theory. You could start here:
>>
>> http://www.google.com/search?&q=lambek+linguistics
>>
>>
>> http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/gjaeger/lehre/cg_ss00/lambek/lambek58.html
>>
>> Best,
>> jb
>>
>> Professor Michael Fourman FBCS CITP
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