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Biology, Computation and Linguistics : New Interdisciplinary Paradigms.
Title:
Biology, Computation and Linguistics : New Interdisciplinary Paradigms.
Author:
Bel-Enguix, G.
ISBN:
9781607507628
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (260 pages)
Series:
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Contents:
Title Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I. Computer Science-Biology -- How the Structure of DNA Molecules Provides Tools for Computation -- On Two Models in Bio-Inspired Computing: Membrane Systems and Networks of Evolutionary Processors -- Taming the Zoo of Discrete HMM Subspecies & Some of Their Relatives -- Deidentification Within Unstructured Medical Records -- Modeling Repeats in DNA Using Probabilistic Extended Regular Expressions -- Modelling Intermolecular Structures and Defining Ambiguity in Gene Sequences Using Matrix Insertion-Deletion Systems -- Part II. Biology-Linguistics -- Genetic Code and Verbal Language: Syntactic and Semantic Analogies -- A Language-Acquisition-Based Approach to Grammatical Inference -- Using Concept Formation for Mining Linguistic and Biological Texts -- Two Views on Crossing Dependencies, Language, Biology and Satisfiability -- Part III. Linguistics-Computer Science -- On the Lower Bounds for Asymmetrical Insertion-Deletion Languages -- A Computational Model for Linguistic Complexity -- How Many Possible Languages Are There? -- Vowel-Consonant Speech Segmentation by Neuromorphic Units -- From Montague's Rules of Quantification to Minimal Recursion Semantics and the Language of Acyclic Recursion -- Syntax-Semantics Interface for Lexical Inflection with the Language of Acyclic Recursion -- Cognitive Architectures in Multi-Agent Systems -- Subject Index -- Author Index.
Abstract:
Over time, the root discipline of philosophy separated into many disciplines and sub-disciplines, each of which has developed its own specific methods. Whilst cross-disciplinary interaction between the three vertices of biology, computing and language processing has often occurred quite naturally in the past, these interactions were mostly two-way, because combining more than two disciplines presents significant challenges. But for some disciplines, reaching out to others is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, and an inverse process of integration is now required. Some disciplines have become unnaturally disconnected from others or from the whole, with the result that a broad view is sometimes lost, and parallels which could be exploited to great advantage cannot even be seen. This book presents a series of essays on biology, computation and linguistics. It seeks to make their connectedness more apparent so that these single disciplines, which relate naturally, but which have drifted far apart, can fruitfully reconnect from their present degrees of specialization.Topics covered include: finding isomorphisms between genetic code and verbal language; seeing childhood dialects as modeling computers; the use of a computational formalism - concept formation - for mining both linguistic and biological texts; lower bounds for asymmetrical insertion-deletion languages; a computational model for linguistic complexity; enumerated speculation on possible languages, as well as an exploration of cognitive architectures for multi agent systems from a computational point of view. This book aims to promote further interconnectedness between the humanistic and the formal sciences, for a less dichotomized, more integrated world.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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