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most citedComputational Paremiology: Charting the temporal, ecological dynamics of proverb use in books, news articles, and tweets

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cs.CL2026

Self-reported archetypes and behavioral failures in Large Language Models

Tabia Tanzin Prama, Calla Glavin Beauregard, Christopher M. Danforth +1

Every large language model (LLM) has behavioral traits and moral preferences that comprise its character. Whether by design or as an emergent property of training, these systems ex…

cs.CL2025

Statistical laws and linguistics differ in naturalistic video and fictional conversations

Ashley M. A. Fehr, Calla G. Beauregard, Julia Witte Zimmerman +4

Conversation is a cornerstone of social connection and is linked to well-being outcomes. Conversations vary widely in type with some portion generating complex, dynamic stories. On…

cs.CL2025

LLMs for Low-Resource Dialect Translation Using Context-Aware Prompting: A Case Study on Sylheti

Tabia Tanzin Prama, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong translation abilities through prompting, even without task-specific training. However, their effectiveness in dialectal and lo…

cs.CL2025

A suite of allotaxonometric tools for the comparison of complex systems using rank-turbulence divergence

Jonathan St-Onge, Ashley M. A. Fehr, Carter Ward +6

Describing and comparing complex systems requires principled, theoretically grounded tools. Built around the phenomenon of type turbulence, allotaxonographs provide map-and-list vi…

cs.CL2024

Tokens, the oft-overlooked appetizer: Large language models, the distributional hypothesis, and meaning

Julia Witte Zimmerman, Denis Hudon, Kathryn Cramer +9

Tokenization is a necessary component within the current architecture of many language mod-els, including the transformer-based large language models (LLMs) of Generative AI, yet i…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Ousiometrics: The essence of meaning aligns with a power-danger-structure framework instead of valence-arousal-dominance

P. S. Dodds, T. Alshaabi, M. I. Fudolig +7

From work emerging through the middle of the 20th century, the essence of meaning has become widely accepted as being described by the three orthogonal dimensions of valence, arous…

cs.CL2021★ 5 cited

Computational Paremiology: Charting the temporal, ecological dynamics of proverb use in books, news articles, and tweets

E. Davis, C. M. Danforth, W. Mieder +1

Proverbs are an essential component of language and culture, and though much attention has been paid to their history and currency, there has been comparatively little quantitative…

cs.CL2021★ 4 cited

Interpretable bias mitigation for textual data: Reducing gender bias in patient notes while maintaining classification performance

Joshua R. Minot, Nicholas Cheney, Marc Maier +3

Medical systems in general, and patient treatment decisions and outcomes in particular, are affected by bias based on gender and other demographic elements. As language models are…