Quantifiers in categorical compositional distributional semantics

Name: Quantifiers in categorical compositional distributional semantics
Start: 2014-11-24T16:30+01:00
End: 2014-11-24T17:30+01:00
Location: Lecture Theatre B

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh ( Queen Mary University of London, UK )

24Nov
16:30 24th November 2014 ( week 7, Michaelmas Term 2014 )
Lecture Theatre B

I will show how to model quantifiers in compositional distributional models of natural language using the diagrams of compact closed categories. I will then instantiate these to Rel and Fvect and present some toy corpus-based examples.