Bob Coecke


2021

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Grammar equations
Bob Coecke | Vincent Wang
Proceedings of the 2021 Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Science (SemSpace)

Diagrammatically speaking, grammatical calculi such as pregroups provide wires between words in order to elucidate their interactions, and this enables one to verify grammatical correctness of phrases and sentences. In this paper we also provide wirings within words. This will enable us to identify grammatical constructs that we expect to be either equal or closely related. Hence, our work paves the way for a new theory of grammar, that provides novel ‘grammatical truths’. We give a nogo-theorem for the fact that our wirings for words make no sense for preordered monoids, the form which grammatical calculi usually take. Instead, they require diagrams – or equivalently, (free) monoidal categories.

2013

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The Frobenius Anatomy of Relative Pronouns
Stephen Clark | Bob Coecke | Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
Proceedings of the 13th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language (MoL 13)

2011

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Concrete Sentence Spaces for Compositional Distributional Models of Meaning
Edward Grefenstette | Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh | Stephen Clark | Bob Coecke | Stephen Pulman
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2011)