Criticality in pareto optimal grammars?

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• dc.contributor.author Seoane, Luís F., 1985-
• dc.contributor.author Solé Vicente, Ricard, 1962-
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-04-16T07:19:43Z
• dc.date.available 2020-04-16T07:19:43Z
• dc.date.issued 2020
• dc.description.abstract What are relevant levels of description when investigating human language? How are these levels connected to each other? Does one description yield smoothly into the next one such that different models lie naturally along a hierarchy containing each other? Or, instead, are there sharp transitions between one description and the next, such that to gain a little bit accuracy it is necessary to change our framework radically? Do different levels describe the same linguistic aspects with increasing (or decreasing) accuracy? Historically, answers to these questions were guided by intuition and resulted in subfields of study, from phonetics to syntax and semantics. Need for research at each level is acknowledged, but seldom are these different aspects brought together (with notable exceptions). Here, we propose a methodology to inspect empirical corpora systematically, and to extract from them, blindly, relevant phenomenological scales and interactions between them. Our methodology is rigorously grounded in information theory, multi-objective optimization, and statistical physics. Salient levels of linguistic description are readily interpretable in terms of energies, entropies, phase transitions, or criticality. Our results suggest a critical point in the description of human language, indicating that several complementary models are simultaneously necessary (and unavoidable) to describe it.
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• dc.identifier.citation Seoane LF, Solé R. Criticality in pareto optimal grammars?. Entropy. 2020; 22(2):165. DOI: 10.3390/e22020165
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e22020165
• dc.identifier.issn 1099-4300
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44232
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher MDPI
• dc.relation.ispartof Entropy. 2020; 22(2):165
• dc.rights © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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• dc.subject.keyword Syntax
• dc.subject.keyword Pareto-optimality
• dc.subject.keyword Bottleneck method
• dc.subject.keyword Phase transitions
• dc.subject.keyword Statistical mechanics
• dc.title Criticality in pareto optimal grammars?
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