3 papers
cs.CL2026
A Computational Approach to Language Contact -- A Case Study of Persian
Ali Basirat, Danial Namazifard, Navid Baradaran Hemmati
We investigate structural traces of language contact in the intermediate representations of a monolingual language model. Focusing on Persian (Farsi) as a historically contact-rich…
cs.CL2025
Isolating Culture Neurons in Multilingual Large Language Models
Danial Namazifard, Lukas Galke Poech
Language and culture are deeply intertwined, yet it has been unclear how and where multilingual large language models encode culture. Here, we build on an established methodology f…
cs.CL2024
Comparative Study of Multilingual Idioms and Similes in Large Language Models
Paria Khoshtab, Danial Namazifard, Mostafa Masoudi +3
This study addresses the gap in the literature concerning the comparative performance of LLMs in interpreting different types of figurative language across multiple languages. By e…