17th-century Italian imposes a 2.4x surprisal tax on LLMs versus modern Italian with comparable tokenization costs to Russian, yet embeddings stay robust above 0.85 similarity and a temporal prompt reduces surprisal by 60%.
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New Zealand Reddit users link language to place and form contiguous speech communities with complex geographic alignment; Word2Vec embeddings reveal semantic variations and shifts in NZ English on a 4.26 billion word corpus.
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HistoRAG: Embedding Historical Methodology in Retrieval-Augmented Generation Through Critical Technical Practice
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Between Century and Poet: Graph-Based Lexical Semantic Change in Persian Poetry
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Language Models as Measurement Apparatus for Culture
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