3 papers
cs.CL2026
Chronologic: Measuring Language Models' Ability to Represent the Past
Ted Underwood, Ziliang Qiu, Sarah Griebel +4
Language models are appealing tools for research on the past. But to trust the evidence a model provides, researchers need to know whether its responses fit the period represented.…
cs.CL2026
Fluency and Faithfulness in Human and Machine Literary Translation
Sarah Griebel, Ted Underwood
Literary translation requires balancing target-language fluency with faithfulness to the source. Recent large language models (LLMs) often produce fluent translations, but it remai…
cs.CL2024
Locating the Leading Edge of Cultural Change
Sarah Griebel, Becca Cohen, Lucian Li +4
Measures of textual similarity and divergence are increasingly used to study cultural change. But which measures align, in practice, with social evidence about change? We apply thr…