Questions tagged [natural-languages]
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What is the type and lambda denotation of the disjunction 'or' in the phrase 'five girls or boys run' using the generalised quantifier theory? [closed]
'Five girls and boys'
I wonder what the denotation and type is of the disjunction 'or' in this phrase. I have 'five' as type <e,t><e,t>t> and the denotation as λPλQ[|P ∩ Q|= 10], but I ...
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Changing the input word embeddings from Glove to BERT for the dynamic memory network [closed]
I am interested in switching the input word embedding of the dynamic memory network (see here for an implementation) from Glove to BERT. However, I am new to NLP. I see from this github page that ...
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Is language a formal system?
Towards the end of this essay on formal systems and human language the author states:
Chomsky and Halle and many other linguists assume that language IS such a [formal] system... These are powerful ...
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What fraction of compound phonemes actually exist in natural language?
Are there phoneme sequences ("pairs") that have not been found in any natural language?
I imagine there are some number of sequences that are physically impossible, but also some that are physically ...
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German corpus for grapheme-phoneme (G2P or P2G) mapping
TIMIT is a well known, publicly accessible corpus that contains phonetic and lexicalic transcription of language (American English).
A sample sentence of TIMIT looks like:
She had your dark suit in ...
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Natural Language Processing Meta-Super-Dictionary
The end goal of asking this question is to find a big (probably several hundred petabyte) data file expressing the meanings of words based on their interactions with other word in as many languages as ...
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What do all languages have in common? [closed]
What do all languages have in common ? I'm looking for a list of features (such as grammatical, semantic or phonetic elements) that are present in all natural languages.
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Is linguistics limited to natural languages?
Or would linguistics also include the study of accessory languages like esperanto, artificial languages like Klingon, or even programming languages?
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Could anyone give examples of context-sensitive sentences that cannot be generated by context-free rules?
Could anyone give examples of context-sensitive sentences that cannot be generated by context-free rules?
To clarify, they are generated by rules including at least one that is in the form αβγ→αψγ, α,...
