Re: Mathematics for sentence composition?

[Valeria de Paiva <valeria.depaiva@gmail.com>]

hi Bob,
As you'd expect there is a lot of literature into discourse analysis. I'm
sure you're already know about DRT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_representation_theory
but you may not have heard of  "segmented discourse representation theory
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_discourse_representation_theory>"
(SDRT) presented in
Asher, Nicholas
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nicholas_Asher&action=edit&redlink=1>
and Alex Lascarides (2003). *Logics of Conversation
<https://books.google.com/books?id=VD-8yisFhBwC>*. Studies in Natural
Language Processing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-65058-5
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-65058-5>
or RST Mann, William C. and Sandra A .Thompson (1988). "Rhetorical
Structure Theory
<http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~nenkova/Courses/cis700-2/rst.pdf>: A theory of
text organization". *Text <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_(journal)>*
*8*: 243–281.
or  LDM (Linguistic Discourse Model) e.g.  in
https://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Eantho/W/W04/W04-0211.pdf, from Livia
Polanyi, for example.
I thought the Tutorial Discourse Structure: Theory, Practice and Use
<http://aclweb.org/anthology/P10-5003>(
https://aclanthology.info/papers/P10-5003/p10-5003) would be useful, but I
couldn't find its contents online.
I don't know much about the area, but I know there are lots more.
best,
Valeria

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 5:25 PM Bob Coecke <bob.coecke@cs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is a request for information from those with knowledge of
> computational linguistics and related things.
>
> Sentence structure is a long-established field, most notably with major
> contributions by Lambek, and concerns how words compose within a sentence.
> How much ( is known / has been done ) in mathematical terms on composing
> sentences in order to form stories?
>
> Im am working on something, don’t want to re-invent the wheel, and also
> want to use/credit what has been done before.
>
> Cheers, Bob.

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