arXiv:2606. 05792v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: TLA+ has supported industrial verification at companies such as Amazon and Microsoft, yet writing correct TLA+ specifications from natural language still requires time and expertise, which limits adoption.
By Arslan Bisharat, Brian Ortiz, Eric Spencer, Khushboo Bhadauria, TaiNing Wang, George K. Thiruvathukal, Konstantin Laufer, Mohammed Abuhamad
arXiv:2608. 05493v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models (LMs) are increasingly used to interact with external services via programs written in domain-specific languages (DSLs).
By Kevin Cheang, Geoff Hulette, Rahul Kumar, Felipe R. Monteiro, Federico Mora, Robin Salkeld, Lin Tan, Serdar Tasiran
The paper presents a pipeline that leverages large language models to extract grammatical rules, example sentences, and lexicons from descriptive grammar books, producing synthetic parallel corpora for fine‑tuning machine translation models. Evaluated on three low‑resource languages—Kalamang, Tuatschin, and Mandan—the synthetic data improves translation quality over seed‑data baselines in 75% of configurations for Kalamang and 59% for Tuatschin, achieving up to +8.8 ChrF++ gains. A factorial study across 96 configurations identifies which combinations of target part‑of‑speech, retrieval granularity, and sample volume drive performance gains and where they fail, demonstrating that static linguistic documentation can be repurposed for practical translation tools for severely under‑resourced languages.
By Varun Ghat Ravikumar, Sina Ahmadi, Lena J\"ager, Rico Sennrich
The paper explores whether structured linguistic reasoning traces can improve low‑resource machine translation by guiding large language models (LLMs). It proposes a pipeline that automatically generates step‑by‑step reasoning traces from Universal Dependencies treebanks, dictionaries, and grammar‑rule banks, and evaluates these traces in in‑context learning, supervised fine‑tuning, and reinforcement fine‑tuning on Xibe and Chintang. The results show that providing reliable reasoning traces at inference time significantly boosts translation quality, whereas using them as training data yields smaller, less consistent gains, indicating that LLMs can benefit from grammatical guidance but struggle to generate accurate analyses themselves.
By Renhao Pei, Yihong Liu, Sampo Pyysalo, Hinrich Sch\"utze, Shaoxiong Ji
arXiv:2606. 30441v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A rigorous formalization of system requirements is a fundamental prerequisite for the verification of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS).
By Marco Aruta, Francesco Improta, Vadim Malvone, Aniello Murano, Vladana Perlic
arXiv:2511. 14967v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise in generating structured diagrams from natural language descriptions, particularly Mermaid sequence diagrams for software engineering.
By Basel Shbita, Farhan Ahmed, Chad DeLuca
arXiv:2508. 10971v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge graphs (KGs) can be enhanced through rule mining; however, the resulting logical rules are often difficult for humans to interpret due to their inherent complexity and the idiosyncratic labeling conventions of individual KGs.
By Nasim Shirvani-Mahdavi, Chengkai Li
The paper examines how language models learn action nominal constructions (ANCs) across 96 synthetic target languages with varied grammatical features. Using GPT‑2‑small trained from scratch, the study evaluates models on minimal pairs covering 34 grammatical phenomena, revealing that models mirror typological patterns in basic clause configurations but diverge in complement systems and ANC strategies. The findings suggest that natural language distributions may arise from both general learning pressures and functional demands not fully captured by current model experiments.
By Iskar Deng, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
arXiv:2510.12306v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: As natural language corpora expand at an unprecedented rate, manual annotation remains a significant methodological bottleneck in corpus linguistic...
By Cameron Morin, Matti Marttinen Larsson
arXiv:2601.19926v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: We present a systematic review of 337 articles evaluating the syntactic abilities of Transformer-based language models (TLMs), reporting on o...
By Nora Graichen, Iria de-Dios-Flores, Gemma Boleda
The paper evaluates two large language models, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Opus 5, on the bidirectional English Resource Grammar (ERG) tasks of generating English from Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS) and parsing English into MRS. In generation, Opus achieves 76.3 BLEU—surpassing a 72k‑pair trained system and matching a million‑pair system—while Sonnet scores 65.7 BLEU, rising to 69.6 when selecting from ACE’s candidates. In parsing, both models lag behind ACE, attaining only 57.2 and 65.5 F₁ respectively, with exact‑match on about 1 % of sentences, highlighting that high generation scores do not guarantee accurate semantic parsing.
By Soham Dan
The paper evaluates how well current Large Language Models can translate natural language goals, written by video game testers, into well‑formed PDDL targets for classical planning. Using a carefully designed prompt template, six state‑of‑the‑art LLMs were tested on correctness, speed, and error tendencies with real‑world benchmarks. All models achieved high correctness (>92%), with Gemini 2.5 Flash reaching 96% accuracy and the fewest false positives, while GPT‑4.1 was the fastest, yet differences in performance and occasional failures due to ambiguity and domain limits remain.
By Tomas Balyo, Lukas Chrpa, G. Michael Youngblood