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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 10h ago6/10
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From Traditional Taggers to LLMs: A Comparative Study of POS Tagging for Medieval Romance Languages

Researchers conducted a systematic evaluation of large language models for part-of-speech tagging in Medieval Romance languages, comparing them against traditional taggers. The study demonstrates that LLM-based approaches with fine-tuning and cross-lingual transfer learning significantly outperform conventional methods, offering practical applications for digital humanities research on historical texts.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 10h ago4/10
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Lost in Translation? Exploring the Shift in Grammatical Gender from Latin to Occitan

Researchers introduce an interpretable deep learning framework to study how grammatical gender evolved from Latin's three-gender system to Occitan's two-gender structure. The work demonstrates that conventional tokenization fails in low-resource historical linguistics and proposes improvements while analyzing how gender information distributes between word roots and sentence context.