Physical Linguistics

Download or read book Physical Linguistics written by Tao Yang and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invented in the University of California at Berkeley, respectively in 1997 and 1965, computational verb theory and fuzzy theory achieved the same goal of making natural languages measurable. While computer verb theory provides measurements to verbs and adverbs, fuzzy theory provides measurements to nouns and adjectives. Since nouns and verbs are two indispensable grammatical centers of all natural languages, computer verb theory and fuzzy theory must be used together to make a natural language measurable. Computer verb theory and fuzzy theory constitute a measurable linguistics called physical linguistics. A natural language without cognition is impossible. Therefore, to build a measurable linguistics we must first build a measurable cognition. In this book, the measurements of cognition are developed based on the Universe-Cognition Duality that provides a metric system for the Cognition. Based on the Universe-Cognition Duality, linguistic structures in natural languages can be mapped into topological structures of electronic circuits such that electronic circuits can be used to calculate cognitions directly by using voltages and currents. The industrial and commercial applications of physical linguistics to automatic control and image processing are presented. Written by the founding father of computational verb theory, this is a lucid, solid and timely monograph for professionals, scientists, academic researchers and students in information sciences, linguistics, fuzzy logic, computer sciences, signal processing and control engineering.