Research / Language
Language
Computational and philosophical work on what large language models do with language — translation fidelity, negation and prohibition, multilingual evaluation, and the linguistics of sentiment.
Translation
- “In Search of a Translator: A Computational Investigation of Proust's Du côté de chez Swann” (Elkins, Frontiers in Computer Science 6, 2024) — Lydia Davis emerges as best literary translator; Mistral best captures emotional nuance among LLMs evaluated. Cross-listed with Emotion.
Negation and prohibition
- “When Prohibitions Become Permissions: Auditing Negation Sensitivity in Language Models” (Elkins and Chun, arXiv:2601.21433, 2026) — examines how LLMs misinterpret negated moral statements (“should not” frequently producing permissive rather than prohibitive responses). Cross-listed with Ethics.
Linguistics of sentiment
- The Shapes of Stories (cross-listed with Storytelling and Emotion) — the linguistic dimension of diachronic sentiment analysis methodology.
Multilingual evaluation
The translation work, the multilingual sentiment-analysis dimension of the Shapes of Stories methodology, and ongoing evaluation work across languages.