Popcorn Sutton Posted December 21, 2013 Posted December 21, 2013 I want to clarify on my idea of language as a computational system. I think that there are a few basic premises behind language acquisition, and that in order to make it computational, a new and unrecognized field that can be described as math is emerging. Here are the basic premises behind mathematical linguistics. One universal premise is pattern recognition. Pattern recognition is the ability to determine the statistical impracticality of randomness. This introduces the other premise, statistics plays a major part in this. In mathematical linguistics, there are four basic computational objects. 1. A set (the role this object plays is unknown, if it plays any role at all) 2. A list 3. A dictionary 4. A tuple Here is how these objects appear. '' or "" is a string Strings contain sequences of occurrences such as any sequence of letters. They consist of any positive whole number of occurrences including none. Lists are just that, lists. They can contain variables and strings. Dictionaries are entries and definitions (although the definitions are most likely not conforming to what we consider a standard definition at this point). Tuples are an object that can contain variables, strings, sets, lists, and dictionaries. Time is an example of a tuple. Tuples are context and attitude sensitive. This type of math is also not specific to language, it can be used psychologically, physically, cognitively, computationally, and for any number of other disciplines.
John Cuthber Posted December 21, 2013 Posted December 21, 2013 Do you anticipate that this will serve some purpose?
Bignose Posted December 22, 2013 Posted December 22, 2013 In mathematical linguistics, there are four basic computational objects. 1. A set (the role this object plays is unknown, if it plays any role at all) 2. A list 3. A dictionary 4. A tuple So, any particular reason you just copied this right out of the programming language python? Or just a coincidence?
Popcorn Sutton Posted December 22, 2013 Author Posted December 22, 2013 John, I'm sure it will serve a purpose in computational linguistics. It was copied out of python because I think that is the best programming language for the task. It's actually logic, math, and linguistics all in one. It's computational neuroscience basically.
hypervalent_iodine Posted December 22, 2013 Posted December 22, 2013 ! Moderator Note Popcorn, just because your last closed thread on this dates back months does not mean we're going to now suddenly let you open it again. Thread closed.
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