Dusko Pavlovic - Lambek pregroups are Frobenius spiders in preorders

compositionality:13515 - Compositionality, April 13, 2022, Volume 4 (2022) - https://doi.org/10.32408/compositionality-4-1
Lambek pregroups are Frobenius spiders in preordersArticle

Authors: Dusko Pavlovic ORCID1

  • 1 University of Hawaii, Honolulu HI, USA

"Spider" is a nickname of special Frobenius algebras, a fundamental structure from mathematics, physics, and computer science. Pregroups are a fundamental structure from linguistics. Pregroups and spiders have been used together in natural language processing: one for syntax, the other for semantics. It turns out that pregroups themselves can be characterized as pointed spiders in the category of preordered relations, where they naturally arise from grammars. The other way around, preordered spider algebras in general can be characterized as unions of pregroups. This extends the characterization of relational spider algebras as disjoint unions of groups. The compositional framework that emerged with the results suggests new ways to understand and apply the basis structures in machine learning and data analysis.


Volume: Volume 4 (2022)
Published on: April 13, 2022
Imported on: May 2, 2024
Keywords: Mathematics - Category Theory,Computer Science - Computation and Language,Computer Science - Formal Languages and Automata Theory,Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science,Mathematics - Logic,68Q42, 03B47, 68T50, 03B65, 18A15, 18B35, 18D10, 18B10, 03B70, 91F20,F.4.2,I.2.7,I.2.6

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