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cs.CL2026
How communicatively optimal are exact numeral systems? Once more on lexicon size and morphosyntactic complexity
Chundra Cathcart, Arne Rubehn, Katja Bocklage +7
Recent research argues that exact recursive numeral systems optimize communicative efficiency by balancing a tradeoff between the size of the numeral lexicon and the average morpho…
cs.CL2019
Ab Antiquo: Neural Proto-language Reconstruction
Carlo Meloni, Shauli Ravfogel, Yoav Goldberg
Historical linguists have identified regularities in the process of historic sound change. The comparative method utilizes those regularities to reconstruct proto-words based on ob…