no code implementations • 29 May 2023 • Matilde Marcolli, Noam Chomsky, Robert Berwick
The syntactic Merge operation of the Minimalist Program in linguistics can be described mathematically in terms of Hopf algebras, with a formalism similar to the one arising in the physics of renormalization.
no code implementations • 5 Dec 2017 • Kevin Shu, Andrew Ortegaray, Robert Berwick, Matilde Marcolli
Using Phylogenetic Algebraic Geometry, we analyze computationally the phylogenetic tree of subfamilies of the Indo-European language family, using data of syntactic structures.
no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Aline Villavicencio, Beracah Yankama, Marco Idiart, Robert Berwick
This paper describes such an initiative for combining information from various sources to extend the annotation of the English CHILDES corpora with linguistic, psycholinguistic and distributional information, along with an example illustrating an application of this approach to the extraction of verb alternation information.