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Reinterpreting 'the Company a Word Keeps': Towards Explainable and Ontologically Grounded Language Models
Walid S. Saba
We argue that the relative success of large language models (LLMs) is not a reflection on the symbolic vs. subsymbolic debate but a reflection on employing a successful bottom-up s…
Stochastic LLMs do not Understand Language: Towards Symbolic, Explainable and Ontologically Based LLMs
Walid S. Saba
In our opinion the exuberance surrounding the relative success of data-driven large language models (LLMs) is slightly misguided and for several reasons (i) LLMs cannot be relied u…
Towards Explainable and Language-Agnostic LLMs: Symbolic Reverse Engineering of Language at Scale
Walid S. Saba
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved a milestone that undenia-bly changed many held beliefs in artificial intelligence (AI). However, there remains many limitations of these…
No Adjective Ordering Mystery, and No Raven Paradox, Just an Ontological Mishap
Walid S. Saba
In the concluding remarks of Ontological Promiscuity Hobbs (1985) made what we believe to be a very insightful observation: given that semantics is an attempt at specifying the rel…
Concerning Olga, the Beautiful Little Street Dancer (Adjectives as Higher-Order Polymorphic Functions)
Walid S. Saba
In this paper we suggest a typed compositional seman-tics for nominal compounds of the form [Adj Noun] that models adjectives as higher-order polymorphic functions, and where types…