Lambdagrams

Lambdagrams are geometric visualizations of semantic types for learning compositional semantics. I came up with the system as a graduate student in 2014. I found it easier to conceptualize function abstraction and more complex semantic types like generalized quantifiers in a visual way.

Click here to play a Lambdagram game I designed. No theory or math, just visual puzzles.

Click here for an interactive lesson: Introduction to Semantic Types with Lambdagrams.

Below is a chart of semantic types and their corresponding Lambdagrams:

Lambdagram Type
Image e
Image t
Image <e,t>
Image <e,<e,t>>
Image <<e,t>,e>
Image <<e,t>,<e,t>>
Image <<e,t>,<<e,t>,t>>
Image <t,<t,t>>