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This paper provides a geometric characterization of subclasses of the regular languages. We use finite model theory to characterize objects like strings and trees as relational structures. Logical statements meeting certain criteria over…

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Large language models (LLMs) process and predict sequences containing text to answer questions, and address tasks including document summarization, providing recommendations, writing software and solving quantitative problems. We provide a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Ricardo Baptista , Andrew Stuart , Son Tran

Tables have gained significant attention in large language models (LLMs) and multimodal large language models (MLLMs) due to their complex and flexible structure. Unlike linear text inputs, tables are two-dimensional, encompassing formats…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Xiaofeng Wu , Alan Ritter , Wei Xu

This paper is an attempt to bring together two approaches to language analysis. The possible use of probabilistic information in principle-based grammars and parsers is considered, including discussion on some theoretical and computational…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Andrew Fordham , Matthew Crocker

The study of linguistic typology is rooted in the implications we find between linguistic features, such as the fact that languages with object-verb word ordering tend to have post-positions. Uncovering such implications typically amounts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Johannes Bjerva , Yova Kementchedjhieva , Ryan Cotterell , Isabelle Augenstein

In the dynamic realm of social media, diverse topics are discussed daily, transcending linguistic boundaries. However, the complexities of understanding and categorising this content across various languages remain an important challenge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Dimosthenis Antypas , Asahi Ushio , Francesco Barbieri , Jose Camacho-Collados

This paper addresses the problem of mapping natural language sentences to lambda-calculus encodings of their meaning. We describe a learning algorithm that takes as input a training set of sentences labeled with expressions in the lambda…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Luke S. Zettlemoyer , Michael Collins

Clustering is one of the most common tasks of Machine Learning. In this paper we examine how ideas from topology can be used to improve clustering techniques.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Dimitrios Panagopoulos

Time series are ubiquitous in our data rich world. In what follows I will describe how ideas from dynamical systems and topological data analysis can be combined to gain insights from time-varying data. We will see several applications to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Jose A. Perea

We describe an automated method for identifying classes of morphologically related words in an on-line dictionary, and for linking individual senses in the derived form to one or more senses in the base form by means of morphological…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Joseph Pentheroudakis , Lucy Vanderwende , Microsoft Corporation

Structured data, prevalent in tables, databases, and knowledge graphs, poses a significant challenge in its representation. With the advent of large language models (LLMs), there has been a shift towards linearization-based methods, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yutong Shao , Ndapa Nakashole

Linguistic fieldwork is an important component in language documentation and preservation. However, it is a long, exhaustive, and time-consuming process. This paper presents a novel model that guides a linguist during the fieldwork and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Aso Mahmudi , Borja Herce , Demian Inostroza Amestica , Andreas Scherbakov , Eduard Hovy , Ekaterina Vylomova

Modern information systems are changing the idea of "data processing" to the idea of "concept processing", meaning that instead of processing words, such systems process semantic concepts which carry meaning and share contexts with other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Roger Granada , Renata Vieira , Cassia Trojahn , Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles

Different classes of communication network topologies and their representation in the form of adjacency matrix and its eigenvalues are presented. A self-organizing feature map neural network is used to map different classes of communication…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 W. Ali , R. J. Mondragon , F. Alavi

Topological data analysis (TDA), while abstract, allows a characterization of time-series data obtained from nonlinear and complex dynamical systems. Though it is surprising that such an abstract measure of structure - counting pieces and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Nicole Sanderson , Elliott Shugerman , Samantha Molnar , James D. Meiss , Elizabeth Bradley

This paper proposes methods of predicting dynamic time series (including non-stationary ones) based on a linguistic approach, namely, the study of occurrences and repetition of so-called N-grams. This approach is used in computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Dmytro Lande , Volodymyr Yuzefovych , Yevheniia Tsybulska

This paper describes a computational framework for a grammar architecture in which different linguistic domains such as morphology, syntax, and semantics are treated not as separate components but compositional domains. Word and phrase…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Cem Bozsahin , Elvan Gocmen

The problem of resolving virtual method and interface calls in object-oriented languages has been a long standing challenge to the program analysis community. The complexities are due to various reasons, such as increased levels of class…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Xilong Zhuo , Chenyi Zhang

Understanding how styles differ across languages is advantageous for training both humans and computers to generate culturally appropriate text. We introduce an explanation framework to extract stylistic differences from multilingual LMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Shreya Havaldar , Matthew Pressimone , Eric Wong , Lyle Ungar

In this article, we propose an automatic process to build multi-lingual lexico-semantic resources. The goal of these resources is to browse semantically textual information contained in texts of different languages. This method uses a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-01-27 Bernard Jacquemin , Sabine Ploux