Quantum physics and linguistics a compositional, diagrammatic discourse [electronic resource] / edited by Chris Heunen, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Edward Grefenstette. - First Edition published in 2013. - 1 online resource (xx, 409 pages) ; illustrations. - Oxford Scholarship Online. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-405) and index (406-409).

A growing body of literature on the use of categorical methods in quantum information theory and computational linguistics shows both the need and opportunity for new research on the relation between these categorical methods and the abstract notion of information flow. This book supplies an overview of how categorical methods are used to model information flow in both physics and linguistics.

9780191747847


Information modeling.
Conceptual structures (Information theory)
Quantum theory.
Computational linguistics.

Q360 / .Q3 2013