[PDF][PDF] Human languages trade off complexity against efficiency

A Koplenig, S Wolfer, P Meyer - … (ICLC-10), 18-21 July, 2023 …, 2022 - ids-pub.bsz-bw.de
A central goal of linguistics is to understand the diverse ways in which human language can
be organized (Gibson et al. 2019; Lupyan/Dale 2016). In our contribution, we present results …

[PDF][PDF] Human languages trade off complexity against efficiency. PLOS Complex Syst 2 (2): e0000032

A Koplenig, S Wolfer, JO Rüdiger, P Meyer - 2025 - ids-pub.bsz-bw.de
From a cross-linguistic perspective, language models are interesting because they can be
used as idealised language learners that learn to produce and process language by being …

[PDF][PDF] Text length strongly matters when analysing word frequency distributions

A Koplenig - 2024 - ids-pub.bsz-bw.de
Fig. 1: Relation between information density, semantic density and text length (in words) for
the Bible_NT corpus for NL= 828 languages and N= 828 data points. In all four scatter plots …

Human languages trade off complexity against efficiency

A Koplenig, S Wolfer, JO Rüdiger… - PLOS Complex …, 2025 - journals.plos.org
From a cross-linguistic perspective, language models are interesting because they can be
used as idealised language learners that learn to produce and process language by being …

[PDF][PDF] page Human languages trade off complexity against efficiency

A Koplenig, S Wolfer, JO Rüdiger, P Meyer - researchgate.net
From a cross-linguistic perspective, language models are interesting because they can be
used as idealised language learners that learn to produce and process language by being …