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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
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…