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arXiv:2608. 03507v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Historical language change affects morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, yet computational studies typically examine these levels with incompatible representations and therefore cannot determine whether they evolve together across languages.
arXiv:2607. 08731v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A national language model offers a linguistic community its own instrument for measuring what its citizens say and value.
arXiv:2606. 23462v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scientists do not, by profession, wage war.
arXiv:2607. 08731v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: National language models are becoming publicly funded epistemic infrastructure.
arXiv:2609.25298v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cultural evaluation coverage and robustness in language models are difficult to diagnose because pretraining corpora and cultural benchmarks are rarely...
A national language model offers a linguistic community its own instrument for measuring what its citizens say and value. Portugal's AMALIA, a publicly funded 9B-parameter model for European Portuguese, appears competitive on agreement alone: asked to code the moral foundation of authority, it agrees with trained human coders to within six F1 points of open models eight to thirteen times its size.