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Network or graph structures are ubiquitous in the study of complex systems. Often, we are interested in complexity trends of these system as it evolves under some dynamic. An example might be looking at the complexity of a food web as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Russell K. Standish

The iterated learning model simulates the transmission of language from generation to generation in order to explore how the constraints imposed by language transmission facilitate the emergence of language structure. Despite each modelled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Hyoyeon Lee , Seth Bullock , Conor Houghton

Machine-learned language models have transformed everyday life: they steer us when we study, drive, manage money. They have the potential to transform our civilization. But they hallucinate. Their realities are virtual. This note provides a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Dusko Pavlovic

Each language has its own complex systems of word, phrase, and sentence construction, the guiding principles of which are often summarized in grammar descriptions for the consumption of linguists or language learners. However, manual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Aditi Chaudhary , Zaid Sheikh , David R Mortensen , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Graham Neubig

Understanding texts requires memory: the reader has to keep in mind enough words to create meaning. This calls for a relation between the memory of the reader and the structure of the text. To investigate this interaction, we first identify…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Alvarez-Lacalle , B. Dorow , J. -P. Eckmann , E. Moses

We develop a system that formally represents spatial semantics concepts within natural language descriptions of spatial arrangements. The system builds on a model of spatial semantics representation according to which words in a sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Alexandros Haridis , Stella Rossikopoulou Pappa

An object--oriented approach to create a natural language understanding system is considered. The understanding program is a formal system built on the base of predicative calculus. Horn's clauses are used as well--formed formulas. An…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-08-08 Yuriy Ostapov

We analyze here a particular kind of linguistic network where vertices representwords and edges stand for syntactic relationships between words. The statisticalproperties of these networks have been recently studied and various features…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ramon Ferrer i Cancho , Andrea Capocci , Guido Caldarelli

Natural language is generated by people, yet traditional language modeling views words or documents as if generated independently. Here, we propose human language modeling (HuLM), a hierarchical extension to the language modeling problem…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Nikita Soni , Matthew Matero , Niranjan Balasubramanian , H. Andrew Schwartz

This report is a survey of the relationships between various state-of-the-art neural network architectures and formal languages as, for example, structured by the Chomsky Language Hierarchy. Of particular interest are the abilities of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Joshua Ackerman , George Cybenko

Recognizable languages of finite words are part of every computer science cursus, and they are routinely described as a cornerstone for applications and for theory. We would like to briefly explore why that is, and how this word-related…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pascal Weil

Artificial intelligence systems exhibit many useful capabilities, but they appear to lack understanding. This essay describes how we could go about constructing a machine capable of understanding. As John Locke (1689) pointed out words are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Herbert L. Roitblat

A distinguishing property of human intelligence is the ability to flexibly use language in order to communicate complex ideas with other humans in a variety of contexts. Research in natural language dialogue should focus on designing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Jon Gauthier , Igor Mordatch

The proposed algorithmic approach deals with finding the sense of a word in an electronic data. Now a day,in different communication mediums like internet, mobile services etc. people use few words, which are slang in nature. This approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Alok Ranjan Pal , Diganta Saha

Language enables humans to share knowledge, reason about the world, and pass on strategies for survival and innovation across generations. At the heart of this process is not just the ability to communicate but also the remarkable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Jan Philip Wahle

Language provides simple ways of communicating generalizable knowledge to each other (e.g., "Birds fly", "John hikes", "Fire makes smoke"). Though found in every language and emerging early in development, the language of generalization is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Michael Henry Tessler , Noah D. Goodman

Wordnets are rich lexico-semantic resources. Linked wordnets are extensions of wordnets, which link similar concepts in wordnets of different languages. Such resources are extremely useful in many Natural Language Processing (NLP)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Kevin Patel , Diptesh Kanojia , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

We argue that human language learning proceeds in a manner that is different in nature from current approaches to training LLMs, predicting a difference in learning biases. We then present evidence from German plural formation by LLMs that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Uli Sauerland , Celia Matthaei , Felix Salfner

Human communication systems, such as language, evolve culturally; their components undergo reproduction and variation. However, a role for selection in cultural evolutionary dynamics is less clear. Often neutral evolution (also known as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Nicolas Fay , Monica Tamariz , T Mark Ellison , Dale Barr

Compositionality has traditionally been understood as a major factor in productivity of language and, more broadly, human cognition. Yet, recently, some research started to question its status, showing that artificial neural networks are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Michal Auersperger , Pavel Pecina