Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models
Abstract Large language models (LLMs) challenge long‐standing assumptions in linguistics and linguistic anthropology by generating human‐like language without relying on rule‐based structures. This introduction to the special issue Language Machines calls for renewed engagement with LLMs as socially embedded language technologies.
Siri Lamoureaux +2 more
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Contemporary architectural aesthetic preferences based on popular AI images and models of the Civitai architect community. [PDF]
Wang Z, Wan T, Veniaminovna KO, Huang J.
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Abstract This paper asks how LLM‐based systems can produce text that is taken as contextually appropriate by humans without having seen text in its broader context. To understand how this is possible, context and co‐text have to be distinguished. Co‐text is input to LLMs during training and at inference as well as the primary resource of sense‐making ...
Ole Pütz
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CDMMM: a comprehensive platform of traditional Indian medicinal plant DNA barcodes and metabolite fingerprints database. [PDF]
Vinay CM +9 more
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Defining vernacular architecture
According to the etymological approach and to the Historical Dictionary of the French Language (Robert, 1985), the notion of vernacular architecture refers to the house of verna, which in Latin means ‘slave born in the house’, while vernaculus means ‘indigenous’, or ‘domestic’.
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Understanding building damage through the lens of the Swiss post-seismic reconnaissance mission of 2023 Al Haouz, Morocco, earthquake. [PDF]
Imtiaz A +7 more
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Vernacular architecture and archaeology
The contribution of excavation to the wider understanding of vernacular architecture over the last 50 years seems to have been that of the wayward brother to its more mature sibling, the study of standing buildings. Archaeology had a stumbling start, but as it has reached a greater maturity it has begun to make a contribution to the wider study of ...
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Cultural topography of publicness: Assessment of the publicness of public spaces in traditional settlements. [PDF]
Wang Z +7 more
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Climate, climate change and the global diversity of human houses. [PDF]
Dunn RR +10 more
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Study on rural landscape design strategies integrating computer vision and deep learning: an analysis based on human perception and visual aesthetics. [PDF]
Shanghao M, Zetian D, Yinuo W.
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