I'm originally trained as a physicist, but migrated toward computer science in grad school. After some internships with Google I got into real-world analytics and data science consulting. I've worked with clients in all sorts of industries, but especially companies in the web space. The consulting firm I work for was recently acquired by Teradata.
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This is going to be a pretty rambly post, please bare with me. I'll make a tldr at the bottom.
So I'm a mathematics University student, but have within the 2 years gained a growing interest in languages and linguistics. This stemmed from my attempts and success in learning (and continue to learn) Welsh, the language of my country. This language has a lot of personal importance to me but that's by the by for this post.
I've decided that I'd like to try involve languages and linguistics in my career if possible. (I'm not sure how to tie mathematics with these and could use some advice, ideas or suggestions).
Currently however, I have managed to wrangle my dissertation to be on languages and got a professor interested in marking such a project. I want this project to be worthwhile since it's going to be my best chance of a spring board to somewhere useful in the language/linguistics fields.
My project is largely undefined at the moment and I'm struggling getting my professor to help define it. Since it has to be mathematics, I've been told to do machine translation which I'm fine with and have some ideas to work with. My professor is pushing me to build a translator between toki pona and basic English, which would require me to try learn toki pona (which I believe I could maybe do?) .
I have also tried my best to insert welsh where possible as well, because it's a lot easier to use languages I can already speak in a language based project. I'd like to try use linguistics throughout the project too, but my professor is unfamiliar so it requires me to figure out how.
The obvious issue here however, is I have no real end goal to work towards in this project. I think my best chance to is figure it out myself and bring that to the table with my professor. So I'm seeking any advice that could be of use, ideas, thoughts, suggestions, resources. Anything.
tldr: The main question here is, what ideas or resources can anyone suggest for a Mathematics dissertation, involving language, linguistics and Machine translation. I'm a native English speaker and a welsh learner but only know the basics of linguistics as a subject.
(I'm also not sure if this is the best place to post this but I'm not entirely sure where would be better?)
For example (easy) 2 + 2 = 4 or two plus two equals four.
(more complex) Two X plus six Y, in parentheses, times, in parentheses, three X minus three Y equals [quadratic equations]
(even more complex)
f'(0)=2(0)+C_1 \,
3=C_1 \,
.... where rules (like power, differential) are written out rather than represented by symbols
*Obviously with geometry you will need the shape as one cannot really spell out a triangle with specific degrees with words. Or is that possible?
I've been preparing for the upcoming examination. I'm looking for some tips to prepare since there is only one Specimen paper (2020) to practice on.
I'm experimenting with a general purpose scientific programming language. I'm eager to listen to your ideas.
We define a greeting to be a set of English words which has less than 20 elements (long greetings suck so these can immediately be removed from consideration for the best greeting). Clearly the set of all greetings, G, is finite, hence we can define a total order on G. If G is a totally ordered set, the supremum exists, and since G is finite the supremum is an element of G. Hence, the best greeting in the English language is sup G.
