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Programming languages, natural languages, and mathematics

open access: yesCommunications of the ACM, 1975
Some social aspects of pro gramming are illuminated through analogies with similar aspects of mathematics and natural languages. The split between pure and applied mathematics is found similarly in programming. The development of natural languages toward
Peter Naur
exaly   +2 more sources

Are planned languages less complex than natural languages? [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage Sciences, 2017
Supporters of languages planned for international communication, like Esperanto, often claim that these languages are less complex and therefore easy to learn as compared to natural languages. To what extent does this claim have empirical support?
Federico Gobbo
exaly   +2 more sources

Natural language and natural selection

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1990
AbstractMany people have argued that the evolution of the human language faculty cannot be explained by Darwinian natural selection. Chomsky and Gould have suggested that language may have evolved as the by-product of selection for other abilities or as a consequence of as-yet unknown laws of growth and form.
Steven Pinker, Paul Bloom
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Natural Computation for Natural Language

Fundamenta Informaticae, 1997
Computation not only takes place in provoked contexts of scientific experimentation, but in natural circumstances too. We are going to approach computation in natural contexts. How the nature computes? Turing machines and Chomsky grammars are rewriting systems, and the same is true for Post, Thue, Markov, Lindenmayer and other classes of axiomatic ...
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Natural language graphics

ACM SIGART Bulletin, 1977
The Natural Language Graphics Project (NLG) at The Ohio State University is concerned with natural language programming in an interactive graphics environment. Natural interaction between men depends on a combination of both graphical and linguistic modes of communication [1].
David C. Brown   +4 more
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