3 papers
cs.CL2026
Syntax as a Rosetta Stone: Universal Dependencies for In-Context Coptic Translation
Abhishek Purushothama, Emma Thronson, Alexia Guo +1
Low-resource machine translation requires methods that differ from those used for high-resource languages. This paper proposes a novel in-context learning approach to support low-r…
cs.CL2026
Prompting from the bench: Large-scale pretraining is not sufficient to prepare LLMs for ordinary meaning analysis
Abhishek Purushothama, Junghyun Min, Brandon Waldon +1
In the U.S. judicial system, a widespread approach to legal interpretation entails assessing how a legal text would be understood by an `ordinary' speaker of the language. Recent s…
cs.CL2025
DeDisCo at the DISRPT 2025 Shared Task: A System for Discourse Relation Classification
Zhuoxuan Ju, Jingni Wu, Abhishek Purushothama +1
This paper presents DeDisCo, Georgetown University's entry in the DISRPT 2025 shared task on discourse relation classification. We test two approaches, using an mt5-based encoder a…