arXiv:2608. 00523v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The linguistic notion of state has traditionally been restricted to the construct (annexation) state of Afroasiatic languages and treated as a language-specific morphosyntactic phenomenon.
By Mohamed El Idrissi
arXiv:2606. 24172v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: More than a billion people communicate in Indic languages, yet the natural language processing infrastructure serving them remains fragmented and underdeveloped.
By Ritwik Banerjee, Lav R. Varshney
arXiv:2607. 23319v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard subword tokenization algorithms such as Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) and SentencePiece are trained predominantly on modern language corpora and produce inefficient segmentations when applied to classical Indian languages.
By Poornima Kumaresan, Pavithra Muruganantham, Lakshmi Rajendran, Santhosh Sivasubramani
arXiv:2606. 15144v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) process text as sequences of subword tokens, which can obscure the character-level and morphological structure that underlies word formation.
By Jann Railey Montalan, David Demitri Africa, Jimson Paulo Layacan, Richell Isaiah Flores, Ivan Yuri De Leon, Lance Calvin Gamboa
arXiv:2607. 28274v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Greek is a richly inflected language, yet the language models built for it are evaluated mainly on factual knowledge, and no benchmark is dedicated to their inflectional competence.
By Ioakeim Perros, Cleopatra Papadopoulou, Ayoub Kirouane, Christos Petrocheilos
arXiv:2606. 16407v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Faithful and robust pronoun use is important for fair and coherent generations, yet large language models largely fail when multiple referents use different pronouns.
By Katharina Trinley, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Dietrich Klakow, Vagrant Gautam