Bob Coecke

  1. Pictures of complete positivity in arbitrary dimension.

    Authors: Bob Coecke, Chris Heunen
    Subjects: Category Theory
    Abstract

    Two fundamental contributions to categorical quantum mechanics are presented.
    First, we generalize the CP-construction, that turns any dagger compact
    category into one with completely positive maps, to arbitrary dimension.
    Second, we axiomatize when a given category is the result of this construction.

  2. Mathematical Foundations for a Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning.

    Authors: Stephen Clark, Bob Coecke, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
    Subjects: Computation and Language (Computational Linguistics and Natural Language and Speech Processing)
    Abstract

    We propose a mathematical framework for a unification of the distributional
    theory of meaning in terms of vector space models, and a compositional theory
    for grammatical types, for which we rely on the algebra of Pregroups,
    introduced by Lambek. This mathematical framework enables us to compute the
    meaning of a well-typed sentence from the meanings of its constituents.
    Concretely, the type reductions of Pregroups are `lifted' to morphisms in a
    category, a procedure that transforms meanings of constituents into a meaning
    of the (well-typed) whole.

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