SPEAKER:
Christian Steinruecken

TITLE:
On Formal and Natural Languages


ABSTRACT:
This seminar will discuss various different forms of
languages and their properties.  With a variety of
examples ranging from chip design to molecular biology,
the concept of language hierarchies will be introduced
and formalised.  The notion of meaning spaces will be
used to compare natural and formal languages, both in
applied and theoretical contexts.

Central to the seminar will be an argument showing that
the expressivity of all languages is necessarily and
logically limited, and what consequences this has for
humans and machines.