3 papers
cs.CL2025
NeLLCom-Lex: A Neural-agent Framework to Study the Interplay between Lexical Systems and Language Use
Yuqing Zhang, Ecesu Ãrker, Tessa Verhoef +2
Lexical semantic change has primarily been investigated with observational and experimental methods; however, observational methods (corpus analysis, distributional semantic modeli…
cs.CL2025
LLMs as a synthesis between symbolic and distributed approaches to language
Gemma Boleda
Since the middle of the 20th century, a fierce battle is being fought between symbolic and distributed approaches to language and cognition. The success of deep learning models, an…
cs.CL2024
Why do objects have many names? A study on word informativeness in language use and lexical systems
Eleonora Gualdoni, Gemma Boleda
Human lexicons contain many different words that speakers can use to refer to the same object, e.g., "purple" or "magenta" for the same shade of color. On the one hand, studies on…