An algebraic approach to translating Japanese
arXiv:2303.05834v12 citationsh-index: 2
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This is an incremental theoretical approach for computational linguistics, focusing on formalizing translation between specific languages.
The paper tackles the problem of translating Japanese to English by using Lambek's pregroups and DisCoCat to model translations as functor pairs, and addresses word order changes through decorated pregroups.
We use Lambek's pregroups and the framework of compositional distributional models of language ("DisCoCat") to study translations from Japanese to English as pairs of functors. Adding decorations to pregroups we show how to handle word order changes between languages.