Sacha Raoult | Natural Language Processing exploration of Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Sacha Raoult: “Natural Language Processing exploration of the Tractatus using semantica.ai”, 8 October 2022.

This presentation was a part of the 7th Symposium of the International Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, “70 Years of Editing Wittgenstein. History, Challenges and Possibilities”, co-organised by the Ludwig Wittgenstein Project, hosted by the University of Milan, 7–8 October 2022.

Abstract:

I will present a work in progress natural language processing tool built for the Tractatus. The dynamic thesaurus is the main effort of the project and its main innovation. This method allows to replace any expression in the text by one of its definitions, and then to correct grammatically the concerned paragraph in order to make the reading perfectly fluid. The result is an interface to explore semantically equivalent proposition in te book. This method allows the reader not to have to remember all the definitions that the author has given as he reads, and thus to considerably lighten the cognitive load that can make certain fundamental texts inaccessible. I will show its early results and perspectives for the future.

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