Categorical Linguistics in Quanta
Posted by Tom Leinster
Quanta magazine has just published a feature on Tai-Danae Bradley and her work, entitled
Where Does Meaning Live in a Sentence? Math Might Tell Us.
The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.
It’s a nicely set up Q&A, with questions like “What’s something category theory lets you see that you can’t otherwise?” and “How do you use category theory to understand language?”
Particularly interesting for me is the part towards the end where Bradley describes her work with Juan Pablo Vigneaux on magnitude of enriched categories of texts.
Posted at April 15, 2025 9:10 AM UTC