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Towards functorial language-games

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In categorical compositional semantics of natural language one studies functors from a category of grammatical derivations (such as a Lambek pregroup) to a semantic category (such as real vector spaces). We compositionally build game-theoretic semantics of sentences by taking the semantic category to be the category whose morphisms are open games. This requires some modifications to the grammar category to compensate for the failure of open games to form a compact closed category. We illustrate the theory using simple examples of Wittgenstein’s language-games.
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Published
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10.4204/EPTCS.283.7

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Computer Science
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Open Publishing Association
Host title:
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, EPTCS
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Volume:
283
Issue:
2018
Pages:
89-102
Publication date:
2018-11-08
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2075-2180


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uuid:0f016228-0cdd-4be9-a488-8fe252ab854c
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973459
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2019-02-21
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