3 papers
cs.CL2026
Safe Language Generation in the Limit
Antonios Anastasopoulos, Giuseppe Ateniese, Evgenios M. Kornaropoulos
Recent results in learning a language in the limit have shown that, although language identification is impossible, language generation is tractable. As this foundational area expa…
cs.CL2026
Speaking of Language: Reflections on Metalanguage Research in NLP
Nathan Schneider, Antonios Anastasopoulos
This work aims to shine a spotlight on the topic of metalanguage. We first define metalanguage, link it to NLP and LLMs, and then discuss our two labs' metalanguage-centered effort…
cs.CL2026
Lost in the Tower of Babel: The Adverse Effects of Incidental Multilingualism in LLMs
Anjishnu Mukherjee, Chutong Meng, Antonios Anastasopoulos
This paper argues that contemporary multilingual NLP has converged on a fragile and misleading paradigm of incidental multilingualism. Today's LLMs appear multilingual largely beca…