3 papers
cs.CL2026
Pretraining Language Models for Diachronic Linguistic Change Discovery
Elisabeth Fittschen, Sabrina Li, Tom Lippincott +2
Large language models (LLMs) have shown potential as tools for scientific discovery. This has engendered growing interest in their use in humanistic disciplines, such as historical…
cs.CL2025
Transferring Extreme Subword Style Using Ngram Model-Based Logit Scaling
Craig Messner, Tom Lippincott
We present an ngram model-based logit scaling technique that effectively transfers extreme subword stylistic variation to large language models at inference time. We demonstrate it…
cs.CL2024
Examining Language Modeling Assumptions Using an Annotated Literary Dialect Corpus
Craig Messner, Tom Lippincott
We present a dataset of 19th century American literary orthovariant tokens with a novel layer of human-annotated dialect group tags designed to serve as the basis for computational…