Questions tagged [mathematical-linguistics]
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Word information vs. word frequency in a text
I am looking for a basic mathematical model of information encoded in a text.
For the sake of presentation I adopt a language learner perspective: how many words does one need to know, in order to ...
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(Empricial) Contributions and motivation for formal linguistics
Montagues original goal was to characterize the notions of truth and validity. My impression after discussion with a semanticist is that current approaches in the field give a formalization and then ...
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How many dimensions do phonemes have?
I was wondering if there was a better or alternative ordering for the letters of the English alphabet, than the standard “a b c d e …”.
This led me to wonder by what parameters they would be ordered.
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