Anhinga anhinga

russhatter showed me a very tempting paper in mathematical linguistics (in the comments to the previous post). I don't understand it well enough (yet) to say whether I like it. It does use monoidal categories to achieve its goals.

Perhaps someone would want to comment on this, or would find the reference interesting.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.4394

"Mathematical Foundations for a Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning
Authors: Bob Coecke, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Stephen Clark
(Submitted on 23 Mar 2010)

Abstract: We propose a mathematical framework for a unification of the distributional theory of meaning in terms of vector space models, and a compositional theory for grammatical types, for which we rely on the algebra of Pregroups, introduced by Lambek. [...]"

Update: ( remarks )

http://www.newswise.com/p/articles/view/521182/

"New analysis of the language and gesture of South America's indigenous Aymara people indicates they have a concept of time opposite to all the world's studied cultures -- so that the past is ahead of them and the future behind."

(see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aymara_language#Unique_features)

In some sense, this is a more empirical way, than ours: the past is what you actually see, so it should be forward of you.. The implication of the future coming at you from behind is interesting..

"The paper suggests that language affects perception in the right half of the visual field, but much less, if at all, in the left half."

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Змеешейка -- Anhinga (darter, snakebird) по-русски.

Спасибо англо-русскому биологическому словарю. Где бы русско-английский достать?