Papers by Kathryn Davidson
Investigating the interaction of linguistic and mathematical reasoning in language models using multilingual number puzzles (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Across languages, numeral systems vary widely in how they construct and combine numbers. |
| Approach: | They conduct experiments to examine the linguistic and mathematical aspects of numbers in language. |
| Outcome: | The models can't solve linguistic-mathematical puzzles involving cross-linguistic numeral systems, the authors found . they lack the ability to flexibly infer compositional rules from implicit patterns in human-scale data. |