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cs.CL2026
Rational Communication Shapes Morphological Composition
Fengyuan Yang, Yongqian Peng, Yuxi Ma +2
Human languages expand vocabularies by combining existing morphemes rather than inventing arbitrary forms. Communicative efficiency shapes lexical systems at multiple levels (Gibso…
cs.CL2025
Word Embeddings Track Social Group Changes Across 70 Years in China
Yuxi Ma, Yongqian Peng, Yixin Zhu
Language encodes societal beliefs about social groups through word patterns. While computational methods like word embeddings enable quantitative analysis of these patterns, studie…