Geometry of language (School of Mathematics Colloquium)
General event
Geometry of language (School of Mathematics Colloquium)
- Event time: 3:10pm
- Event date: 4th February 2016
- Speaker: Matilde Marcolli (Caltech)
- Location: Lecture Theatre C, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Abstract
Natural languages exhibit a broad range of different syntactic structures. While these have been extensively studied by linguists, many open questions remain on how these vary over language families and change in the process of language evolution. I will present a novel approach to studying these questions, based on topology, through the notion of persistent homology, and on statistical physics.
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