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Pronouns are frequently omitted in pro-drop languages, such as Chinese, generally leading to significant challenges with respect to the production of complete translations. Recently, Wang et al. (2018) proposed a novel reconstruction-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Longyue Wang , Zhaopeng Tu , Andy Way , Qun Liu

Finite-state morphology in the general tradition of the Two-Level and Xerox implementations has proved very successful in the production of robust morphological analyzer-generators, including many large-scale commercial systems. However, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Kenneth R. Beesley , Lauri Karttunen

Dropout is a widely used regularization technique in deep learning, but its effects are typically realized through stochastic masking rather than explicit optimization objectives. We propose a deterministic formulation that expresses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Vidhi Agrawal , Illia Oleksiienko , Alexandros Iosifidis

Considering patterns as sets of their instances, a difference operator over patterns computes a finite set of two given patterns, which represents the difference between the dividend pattern and the divisor pattern. A complement of a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Naoki Nishida , Misaki Kojima , Yuto Nakamura

Powerspaces of directed spaces play an important role in modeling the semantics of nondeterministic functional programming languages. The notions of upper,lower and convex powerspace of a directed space are defined by the way of free…

General Topology · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Wu Wang

This paper proposes an alternative to standard first-order logic that seeks greater naturalness, generality, and semantic self-containment. The system removes the first-order restriction, avoids type hierarchies, and dispenses with external…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Mauro Avon

We study succinctness as a measure of the expressive power of transformers. Succinctness -- how compactly a formalism can describe a language relative to other formalisms -- is a classical notion in logic and automata theory. We prove that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Pascal Bergsträßer , Ryan Cotterell , Anthony W. Lin

Modern language models define distributions over strings, but downstream tasks often require different output formats. For instance, a model that generates byte-pair strings does not directly produce word-level predictions, and a DNA model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson , Samuel Kiegeland , Tianyu Liu , Reda Boumasmoud , Ryan Cotterell , Tim Vieira

Finite (word) state transducers extend finite state automata by defining a binary relation over finite words, called rational relation. If the rational relation is the graph of a function, this function is said to be rational. The class of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Emmanuel Filiot , Ismaël Jecker , Khushraj Madnani , Saina Sunny

We characterize effective descent morphisms of what we call filtered preorders, and apply these results to slightly improve a known result, due to the first author and F. Lucatelli Nunes, on the effective descent morphisms in lax comma…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Maria Manuel Clementino , George Janelidze

Interpretation methods and their restrictions to polynomials have been deeply used to control the termination and complexity of first-order term rewrite systems. This paper extends interpretation methods to a pure higher order functional…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Emmanuel Hainry , Romain Péchoux

Exhausters and coexhausters are notions of constructive nonsmooth analysis which are used to study extremal properties of functions. An upper exhauster (coexhauster) is used to get an approximation of a considered function in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Majid E. Abbasov

Regular languages are closed under a wealth of formal language operators. Incorporating such operators in regular expressions leads to concise language specifications, but the transformation of such enhanced regular expressions to finite…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Peter Thiemann

A non-deterministic call-by-need lambda-calculus \calc with case, constructors, letrec and a (non-deterministic) erratic choice, based on rewriting rules is investigated. A standard reduction is defined as a variant of left-most outermost…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Manfred Schmidt-Schauß , Michael Huber

We present ReFormeR, a pattern-guided approach for query reformulation. Instead of prompting a language model to generate reformulations of a query directly, ReFormeR first elicits short reformulation patterns from pairs of initial queries…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Amin Bigdeli , Mert Incesu , Negar Arabzadeh , Charles L. A. Clarke , Ebrahim Bagheri

This paper addresses practical implementation of summing out, expanding, and reordering of messages in Local Conditioning (LC) for undirected networks. In particular, incoming messages conditioned on potentially different subsets of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Matthew G. Reyes

LLMs have advanced text classification, yet existing paradigms face a trade-off: supervised (label only) fine-tuning is scalable but offers limited reasoning on complex text and lacks broader model transparency, while discrete prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tianyang Zhou , Wenbo Chen , Pierre Jinghong Liang , Leman Akoglu

Checking infinite-state systems is frequently done by encoding infinite sets of states as regular languages. Computing such a regular representation of, say, the set of reachable states of a system requires acceleration techniques that can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Axel Legay , Pierre Wolper

The Functional Machine Calculus (Heijltjes 2022) is a new approach to unifying the imperative and functional programming paradigms. It extends the lambda-calculus, preserving the key features of confluent reduction and typed termination, to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Willem Heijltjes

We consider ways to construct a transducer for a given set of input word to output symbol pairs. This is motivated by the need for representing game playing programs in a low-level mathematical format that can be analyzed by algebraic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Attila Egri-Nagy , Chrystopher L. Nehaniv