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cs.CL2025
The Foundations of Tokenization: Statistical and Computational Concerns
Juan Luis Gastaldi, John Terilla, Luca Malagutti +3
Tokenization - the practice of converting strings of characters from an alphabet into sequences of tokens over a vocabulary - is a critical step in the NLP pipeline. The use of tok…
cs.CL2024
On the Proper Treatment of Tokenization in Psycholinguistics
Mario Giulianelli, Luca Malagutti, Juan Luis Gastaldi +3
Language models are widely used in computational psycholinguistics to test theories that relate the negative log probability (the surprisal) of a region of interest (a substring of…
cs.CL2024
The Role of -gram Smoothing in the Age of Neural Networks
Luca Malagutti, Andrius Buinovskij, Anej Svete +3
For nearly three decades, language models derived from the -gram assumption held the state of the art on the task. The key to their success lay in the application of various smo…