From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/9742 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Valeria de Paiva Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Mathematics for sentence composition? Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 18:07:58 -0700 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Valeria de Paiva NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540462855 10003 195.159.176.226 (25 Oct 2018 10:20:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 10:20:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "categories@mta.ca" To: Bob Coecke Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Thu Oct 25 12:20:51 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from [198.164.44.40] (helo=smtp2.mta.ca) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gFcl0-0002SS-Gl for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:20:50 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:58425) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1gFcmi-0000iv-Lo; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 07:22:36 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFclX-0005Yt-5s for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 07:21:23 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk X-Broken-Reverse-DNS: no host name found for IP address 198.164.44.40 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:9742 Archived-At: 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 " (SDRT) presented in Asher, Nicholas and Alex Lascarides (2003). *Logics of Conversation *. Studies in Natural Language Processing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-65058-5 or RST Mann, William C. and Sandra A .Thompson (1988). "Rhetorical Structure Theory : A theory of text organization". *Text * *8*: 243=E2=80=93281. 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 ( 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 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=E2=80=99t want to re-invent the wheel, an= d also > want to use/credit what has been done before. > > Cheers, Bob. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]