Linguistics and Quantum Theory: Epistemological Perspectives
Francesco Galofaro, Bich-Liên Doan, Zeno Toffano · 2016
The article will explore the philosophical consequence on the notion of meaning of the adoption of a quantum geometry-based approach in linguistic disciplines such Information Retrieval, which importance grew with Internet and big data. The paper reconstructs an archaeology of the turn to probabilistic and a quantum perspectives in language research and its reasons, we considers some linguistic features which justify the adoption of a quantum perspective (non-distributiveness, failures of the substitutivity principle, periodicity of the meaning function), it underlines two features of quantum models (superposition and entanglement) which seems interesting to represent semantics, we hope to show how quantum models allow a convergence of the interest of different perspectives in philosophy of language.