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10 papers

cs.CL2026

From 124 Million Tokens to 1,021 Neologisms: A Large-Scale Pipeline for Automatic Neologism Detection

Diego Rossini, Lonneke van der Plas

We present a scalable, modular pipeline for automatic neologism detection that combines rule-based filtering with LLM classification. The pipeline is grounded in two complementary…

q-bio.NC2026

Large Language Models Align with the Human Brain during Creative Thinking

Mete Ismayilzada, Simone A. Luchini, Abdulkadir Gokce +5

Creative thinking is a fundamental aspect of human cognition, and divergent thinking-the capacity to generate novel and varied ideas-is widely regarded as its core generative engin…

cs.CL2026

CresOWLve: Benchmarking Creative Problem-Solving Over Real-World Knowledge

Mete Ismayilzada, Renqing Cuomao, Daniil Yurshevich +3

Creative problem-solving requires combining multiple cognitive abilities, including logical reasoning, lateral thinking, analogy-making, and commonsense knowledge, to discover insi…

cs.CL2026

Binary Token-Level Classification with DeBERTa for All-Type MWE Identification: A Lightweight Approach with Linguistic Enhancement

Diego Rossini, Lonneke van der Plas

We present a comprehensive approach for multiword expression (MWE) identification that combines binary token-level classification, linguistic feature integration, and data augmenta…

cs.CL2025

Modelling Analogies and Analogical Reasoning: Connecting Cognitive Science Theory and NLP Research

Molly R Petersen, Claire E Stevenson, Lonneke van der Plas

Analogical reasoning is an essential aspect of human cognition. In this paper, we summarize key theory about the processes underlying analogical reasoning from the cognitive scienc…

cs.CL2025

Creative Preference Optimization

Mete Ismayilzada, Antonio Laverghetta, Simone A. Luchini +4

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance across natural language generation tasks, their ability to generate truly creative content-characterized…