Joseph Howlett in Quanta:
Her lens is category theory, a way of stepping back from the specifics of any individual field in favor of a broader underlying framework that bridges all of them. By thinking of language as a mathematical category, she’s been able to apply established tools to study it and glean new insights.
Linguists hope her model can help them to prove certain theories about how grammar and meaning emerge from strings of words, and to identify how AI-generated text differs from human language. Bradley herself is more interested in how studying language in this way might allow her to develop new mathematical tools.
Quanta spoke with Bradley about how mathematics can inform the study of language and vice versa.
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