Reducing Texts to Formulas

Abstract

This book attempts to show that certain analyses of how words combine, when applied to reports in a science, suffice to transform the reports into a sequence of formulas which represent the information contained in the reports. The methods do not depend upon the investigator’s judging or classifying the meanings of words or sentences, or upon any specialized knowledge of the science. The words are identified not by their meanings but by the combinations into which they enter in respect to other words, within each sentence of the science material. At least in part, the methods could be carried out in computer programs applied to the articles as published, without pre- or post-editing.