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The syntactic structures of sentences can be readily read-out from the activations of large language models (LLMs). However, the ``structural probes'' that have been developed to reveal this phenomenon are typically evaluated on an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Pablo J. Diego-Simón , Emmanuel Chemla , Jean-Rémi King , Yair Lakretz

Lexical ambiguity makes it difficult to compute various useful statistics of a corpus. A given word form might represent any of several morphological feature bundles. One can, however, use unsupervised learning (as in EM) to fit a model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Ryan Cotterell , Christo Kirov , Sabrina J. Mielke , Jason Eisner

We consider the problem of computing the probability of regular languages of infinite trees with respect to the natural coin-flipping measure. We propose an algorithm which computes the probability of languages recognizable by \emph{game…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-07 Henryk Michalewski , Matteo Mio

In this paper, we evaluate the capability of transformer-based language models in making inferences over uncertain text that includes uncertain rules of reasoning. We cover both Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) and generative Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Aliakbar Nafar , Kristen Brent Venable , Parisa Kordjamshidi

We propose a principle for exploring context in machine learning models. Starting with a simple assumption that each observation may or may not depend on its context, a conditional probability distribution is decomposed into two parts:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Yun Zeng

A novel approach to automated learning of syntactic rules governing natural languages is proposed, based on using probabilities assigned to sentences (and potentially longer word sequences) by transformer neural network language models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Ben Goertzel , Andres Suarez Madrigal , Gino Yu

Rule set learning has long been studied and has recently been frequently revisited due to the need for interpretable models. Still, existing methods have several shortcomings: 1) most recent methods require a binary feature matrix as input,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Lincen Yang , Matthijs van Leeuwen

This work treats the paradigm discovery problem (PDP), the task of learning an inflectional morphological system from unannotated sentences. We formalize the PDP and develop evaluation metrics for judging systems. Using currently available…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Alexander Erdmann , Micha Elsner , Shijie Wu , Ryan Cotterell , Nizar Habash

Tabling in logic programming has been used to eliminate redundant computation and also to stop infinite loop. In this paper we investigate another possibility of tabling, i.e. to compute an infinite sum of probabilities for probabilistic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Taisuke Sato , Philipp Meyer

We propose a theoretical framework within which information on the vocabulary of a given corpus can be inferred on the basis of statistical information gathered on that corpus. Inferences can be made on the categories of the words in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2008-10-08 Pascal Vaillant , Richard Nock , Claudia Henry

Motivated by recent connections to factorised databases, we analyse the efficiency of representations by context free grammars (CFGs). Concretely, we prove a recent conjecture by Kimelfeld, Martens, and Niewerth (ICDT 2025), that for finite…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Stefan Mengel , Harry Vinall-Smeeth

Grammaticality and likelihood are distinct notions in human language. Pretrained language models (LMs), which are probabilistic models of language fitted to maximize corpus likelihood, generate grammatically well-formed text and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yingshan Susan Wang , Linlu Qiu , Zhaofeng Wu , Roger P. Levy , Yoon Kim

The paper presents a language model that develops syntactic structure and uses it to extract meaningful information from the word history, thus enabling the use of long distance dependencies. The model assigns probability to every joint…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ciprian Chelba , Frederick Jelinek

The paper presents a language model that develops syntactic structure and uses it to extract meaningful information from the word history, thus enabling the use of long distance dependencies. The model assigns probability to every joint…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ciprian Chelba

We present an approach for assessing how multilingual large language models (LLMs) learn syntax in terms of multi-formalism syntactic structures. We aim to recover constituent and dependency structures by casting parsing as sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Alberto Muñoz-Ortiz , David Vilares , Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

Representing token embeddings as probability distributions over learned manifolds allows for more flexible contextual inference, reducing representational rigidity while enhancing semantic granularity. Comparative evaluations demonstrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Christopher Nightingale , Dominic Lavington , Jonathan Thistlethwaite , Sebastian Penhaligon , Thomas Belinski , David Boldo

This paper presents a novel method that allows a machine learning algorithm following the transformation-based learning paradigm \cite{brill95:tagging} to be applied to multiple classification tasks by training jointly and simultaneously on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Radu Florian , Grace Ngai

Understanding and explaining the structure of generated test inputs is essential for effective software testing and debugging. Existing approaches--including grammar-based fuzzers, probabilistic Context-Free Grammars (pCFGs), and Large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Annaëlle Baiget , Jaron Maene , Seongmin Lee , Benjie Wang , Guy Van den Broeck , Miryung Kim

Natural Language Processing enables computers to understand human language by analysing and classifying text efficiently with deep-level grammatical and semantic features. Existing models capture features by learning from large corpora with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Azrin Sultana , Firoz Ahmed

In this paper we obtain complexity bounds for computational problems on algebraic power series over several commuting variables. The power series are specified by systems of polynomial equations: a formalism closely related to weighted…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Nikhil Balaji , Lorenzo Clemente , Klara Nosan , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , James Worrell