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  1. Does Linguistic Structure Enrichment Enhance Coherence Assessment? Not With Current Architectures

    Sep 12, 2026Victor Mazzotti, Luiz Pereira, Marina Bitencourt dos Santos +4Narrative CoherenceCoherence

  2. Multilingual in Name Only? Cultural and Linguistic Weaknesses of LLMs in Urdu

    Sep 12, 2026Farah Adeeba, Abdul Rafae Khan, Rajesh Bhatt +1UrduLow-Resource Languages

  3. Using Semantic Uncertainty to Estimate Transition Relevance in Turn-taking

    Sep 11, 2026Muhammad Umair, Jan P. de RuiterTurn-TakingLarge Language Model Uncertainty

  4. Negative Self-Distillation: Learning to Reason by Avoiding Flaws

    Sep 10, 2026Rongcan Pei, Zhepei Wei, Shuyao Xu +3Unsupervised On-Policy Self-DistillationSelf-Distillation

  5. Compositional Multilingual and Behavioral Attribute Steering

    Sep 8, 2026Hyun Gu Kang, Daniil Gurgurov, Tanja Baeumel +2SteeringLinguistics

  6. FreqBLiMP: Frequency-Controlled Minimal Pairs Reveal Robustness and Fragility of LLMs Under Lexical Rarity

    Sep 7, 2026Tyrone White, Yuki AraseLexical StabilityLinguistics

  7. From Deceptive Outputs to Deceptive Mechanisms: A Causal Framework for Language-Model Deception Research

    Sep 3, 2026Yakov Pyotr ShkolnikovDeceptionCognitive Biases

  8. Typological Feature Prediction with Large Language Models: An In-Context Learning Approach

    Sep 3, 2026Qianwen Wang, York Hay Ng, Aditya Khan +1LinguisticsIn-Context Learning

  9. Language, Language Models, and What We're Talking About

    Sep 3, 2026Malvina NissimProtein Language ModelLinguistics

  10. No country for old linguists: LLM-brain alignment underdetermines neural computation

    Sep 2, 2026Elliot MurphyLarge Language Model AlignmentLinguistics

  11. Disentangling Statistical Preemption from Entrenchment in Language Models' Avoidance of Overgeneralization

    Sep 1, 2026Yixuan Wang, Freda Shi, Kanishka MisraAvoidancePriming

  12. Investigating Linear Probe Robustness to Linguistic Register, Medical Specialty, and Corpus Shifts in Medical QA

    Sep 1, 2026Nishant Mishra, Ameen Abu-Hanna, Iacer CalixtoMedical Question AnsweringCorpus

  13. Staged Linguistic Seeding: Grounded Query Expansion for Verified-Unit QA in AI Contact Centers

    Sep 1, 2026Hyeonseop Yoon, Jeong-Eun ParkVoice AgentsMulti-Hop Question Answering Benchmarks

  14. Linguistic Distance Segregates Latent Representations in Automatic Speech Recognition Systems

    Aug 31, 2026Ting-Hui Cheng, Line Katrine Harder Clemmensen, Sneha DasAutomatic Speech RecognitionLinguistics

  15. Detecting Hidden Chain-of-Thought in Large Language Models with Linguistic, Behavioral, and Mechanistic Indicators

    Aug 30, 2026Armaan Singh, Ryan Trinh Le, Jasmine Kaur +5LLM Reasoning MethodsLatent Reasoning

  16. A Survey on Rubric-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Language Models

    Aug 27, 2026Zifei Shan, Fangning ShaoRubric-Based Reinforcement LearningRubrics

  17. It's How You Ask: Gender-Associated Linguistic Bias in LLMs

    Aug 13, 2026Katherine Van Koevering, Anjalie FieldLarge Language Model BiasGender

  18. Perturbation-based Regional Interpretability through Subtraction Mapping (PRISM): naming-error dissociations in language models and post-stroke aphasia

    Aug 13, 2026Xiang Guan, Roger D. Newman-Norlund, Yong Yang +8Dysarthric SpeechLinguistics

  19. Conflict and Congruency Effects in Large Language Models: In-Weight and In-Context Competition in a Verbal Conflict Task

    Aug 11, 2026Xiaoyang Hu, Mike Angstadt, Shane Storks +5Large Language Models FailPriming

  20. Beyond Naturalness: Probing Automated Text-To-Speech Evaluators on Linguistically Grounded Dimensions

    Aug 10, 2026Oluwanifemi Bamgbose, Simon Rosen, Jash Shah +6Automatic Speech Recognition EvaluationSpeaker Identity

  21. When Confidence Fails: Overconfidence in LLMs under Uncertainty and Missing Clinical Information

    Aug 10, 2026Maryam Tahermazandarani, Adnan Mahmood, Fahmida Islam +1OverconfidenceLinguistics

  22. Gaze Behavior in Visual World Experiments Can be Modeled With Off-the-shelf Language-Vision Encoders

    Aug 7, 2026Rahul Murali Shankar, Titus von der Malsburg, Sebastian PadóVision EncodersLinguistics

  23. Beyond "AI Language": The case for the idiolectal nature of LLM output

    Aug 6, 2026Karolina Rudnicka, Thomas Stephan JuzekLinguisticsStylometric

  24. Bias Analysis of L2 Speaking Assessment Systems Using Concept Activation Vectors

    Aug 6, 2026Arya Labroo, Mengjie Qian, Kate KnillLarge Language Model BiasDecision-Aware Evaluation

  25. Decolonizing Linguistic Policies in Automated Speech Recognition: A Framework for Cross-Culturally Competent Speech AI

    Aug 6, 2026Jay L. Cunningham, Mark Atta Mensah, Richard Martinez +2Linguistics

  26. Language Models Generalize to Human-like Word Order Preferences

    Aug 5, 2026Amanda Popadich, Shane Steinert-ThrelkeldProtein Language ModelLinguistics

  27. Do Language Models Know Their Slang? Queer Slang Understanding in User-Generated Content

    Aug 5, 2026Arianna Denitto, Beatrice SavoldiLinguisticsLarge Language Model Bias

  28. Pun Intended: Multi-Agent Translation of Wordplay with Contrastive Learning and Phonetic-Semantic Embeddings

    Aug 5, 2026Russell Taylor, Benjamin Herbert, Michael SanaLinguisticsContrastive Learning

  29. Large Language Models for Low-Resource Languages: A Conceptual Framework for an Electronic Explanatory Dictionary of the Tajik Language

    Aug 4, 2026Mullosharaf K. Arabov, S. S. Pirov, B. SultonovLow-Resource LanguagesLexicon

  30. ChronoLens: Measuring Language Change Across Time, Languages, and Linguistic Levels

    Aug 4, 2026Gagan Bhatia, Julian Schlenker, Simone Paolo Ponzetto +1Semantic ChangeLinguistics

  31. Open-Linguistic Concept Unified Learning for Cross-Site Interpretable Dermatology Image Diagnosis

    Aug 4, 2026Chengyu Wu, Junpeng Tan, Wanxiang Luo +3Medical Vision-Language ModelsMultimodal Clinical Data

  32. What Language Does and What the Evidence Supports: A Functional Role Taxonomy and Evidence Audit of Language Grounding in Embodied Agents

    Aug 4, 2026Yifan Guo, Chenghao Li, Zhu Wang +6EmbodiedLinguistics

  33. Activation-Guided Neuron Intervention to Induce Alzheimer's-Related Computational Language Phenotypes in a Large Language Model

    Aug 4, 2026Rui He, Ercong Nie, Hong Jiang +3AlzheimerLarge Language Model Adaptation

  34. Disentangled Contrastive Learning for Zero-Shot Multilingual Dense Retrieval

    Aug 3, 2026Chao Huang, Yufeng Chen, Changhao Guan +3Multilingual Language ModelsContrastive Learning

  35. Exemplars in Disguise: Pure Exemplar Models Mimic Abstraction-First Learning

    Aug 1, 2026Zachary Nicholas Houghton, Vsevolod KapatsinskiProtein Language ModelMemorization

  36. Rethinking and formalising the state across languages: a unified computational learning theory account

    Aug 1, 2026Mohamed El IdrissiLinguisticsMorphology

  37. Generative AI and linguistic diversity in academic writing and publishing: Perspectives from World Englishes

    Jul 30, 2026Kingsley Ugwuanyi, Christian Mair, Sender Dovchin +3WritingArtificial Intelligence Literacy

  38. Challenges in annotations by humans and LLMs: A case study of evaluative language

    Jul 30, 2026Mirela Imamovic, Aenne Cecilia Kristine Knierim, Khushi Pitroda +1Human AnnotatorsHuman Annotations

  39. Linguistic Monoculture in LLM-Assisted Language Use

    Jul 29, 2026Suhas Thejaswi, Juhi Kulshreshta, Lutz OettershagenLinguisticsConformity

  40. Evaluating Regional Bias in LLMs From Abstract Stereotype to Concrete Social Decision-Making

    Jul 29, 2026Jiayuan Di, Haoyi Yang, Yufei Luo +2Stereotype MitigationBridging Geographic Bias

  41. Symphony of Bias: Exploring Gender Associations with Musical Instruments in Multimodal LLMs

    Jul 29, 2026Farhan Farsi, Shayan Bali, Mohammad Heydari Rad +2GenderLarge Language Model Bias

  42. The Confounder Trap: Treatment-Encoding Representations in Causal Inference with Text

    Jul 28, 2026Marie Neubrander, Graham Tierney, Alexander VolfovskyLatent ConfoundersCausal Inferences

  43. Beyond Epistemia: Epistemic Schizologia and Large Language Models as Techno-Semiotic Machines

    Jul 28, 2026Federico Cabitza, Gianluca ColomboEpistemic OrientationEpistemic Injustice

  44. Every Time I Hire a Linguist, Inference Costs Go Down: On Linguistic Rules as Effective Prompt Compressors

    Jul 28, 2026Jianfei Ma, Zhaoxin Feng, Emmanuele Chersoni +1Large Language Model CompressionModel and Context Compression

  45. Toward a systematic method for identifying language areas

    Jul 28, 2026Hiram RingLinguisticsIndic Languages

  46. LEX-EC: A Lexical Evidence-Channel Audit Framework for Zero-Shot LLM Personality Classification in Black-Box Settings

    Jul 27, 2026Brittany Harbison, Ashok K. GoelPersonalityLarge Language Model Bias

  47. Looking for Affect in Spontaneous Finnish Speech through Linguistic Interpretability

    Jul 27, 2026Kalle Lahtinen, Liisa Mustanoja, Okko RäsänenSpeech Emotion RecognitionLinguistics

  48. The JEPA Paradox in Language: The Geometry of Linguistic Alternatives

    Jul 26, 2026Anh Trac Duc Dinh, Khang Nhat Hoang VoVideo Joint Embedding Predictive ArchitectureJoint-Embedding Predictive Architectures

  49. Interview with Kalle Lyytinen on "Implications of Theories of Language for Information Systems"

    Jul 25, 2026Kalle J. Lyytinen, Pierre Maier, Paul Ackah ToffeyLinguisticsMotivational Interviewing

  50. PatiGonit22K: A Comprehensive Dataset for Solving Complex Bengali MWPs

    Jul 24, 2026Swastika Kundu, Azizul Hakim Fayaz, Tashreef MuhammadBanglaMath Problems

  51. Surprisal Theory is Tautological (without Rational Grounding)

    Jul 23, 2026Ryan CotterellSurprisalLinguistics

  52. Word meaning co-determines vowel-inherent spectral change. A corpus-based investigation of conversational Mandarin

    Jul 23, 2026Xiaoyun Jin, Mirjam Ernestus, R. Harald BaayenArticulatoryLinguistics

  53. slang.gr as a Large-Scale Crowdsourced Resource for Non-Standard Greek

    Jul 23, 2026Panagiotis Papadakos, Katerina Papantoniou, Dimitris PlexousakisLinguisticsAncient Greek

  54. Exposure is Optional: Learning Unlike Coordination in Language Models

    Jul 22, 2026Jiamu Luo, Shane Steinert-ThrelkeldProtein Language ModelLinguistics

  55. surprisal is Not a Theory

    Jul 22, 2026Andrés Buxó-Lugo, Aniello De Santo, Morgan Grobol +2SurprisalLinguistics

  56. Understanding the Impact of Linguistic Realization Choices on LLM Stance with Causal Tracing

    Jul 22, 2026Langchen Huang, Sebastian Padó, Franziska WeeberLinguisticsRewrite

  57. Linguistic Context Recodes Visual Representations in Vision-Language Models

    Jul 21, 2026Brian Song, Michael A. Lepori, Ellie PavlickVisual RepresentationsCross-Modality

  58. It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It: Evaluating LLM Responses to Expressions of Belief

    Jul 20, 2026Kevin Du, Clara Kümpel, Michelle Wastl +1Large Language Model ResponsesLinguistics

  59. How Reliable Are Multimodal Signals of Conversational State? Evidence from Remote Dyadic Collaborative Tasks

    Jul 20, 2026Tahiya ChowdhuryConversational ContextMultimodal Evaluation

  60. Rate-Utility Frontiers for Language Encodings: Comparing Tokens, Bytes, and Pixels Under Controlled Linguistic Content

    Jul 17, 2026Ingo Ziegler, Martin Krebs, Desmond ElliottAutoencodingProtein Language Model