2 papers
cs.CL2025
KRISTEVA: Close Reading as a Novel Task for Benchmarking Interpretive Reasoning
Peiqi Sui, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Philippe Laban +5
Each year, tens of millions of essays are written and graded in college-level English courses. Students are asked to analyze literary and cultural texts through a process known as…
cs.CL2024
AcrosticSleuth: Probabilistic Identification and Ranking of Acrostics in Multilingual Corpora
Aleksandr Fedchin, Isabel Cooperman, Pramit Chaudhuri +1
For centuries, writers have hidden messages in their texts as acrostics, where initial letters of consecutive lines or paragraphs form meaningful words or phrases. Scholars searchi…