Mathematical Methods in Linguistics
Course Notes for LIN 361/539 at Stony Brook
University
Thomas Graf
Fall 2023
Main Units
Introduction
N-grams for linguistics
N-grams in language technology (optional)
Universals and monotonicity
Mappings
More fun with finite-state machinery
Background
General Background
Sets
Strings
Tuples
Functions
Relations
Posets
Linear algebra
Additional practice exercises
Practice exercises for n-gram grammars