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Ryan Cotterell

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#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

A Formal Limitation on Learning Human Language From Textual Corpora

Modeling language use as a joint distribution over meanings, contexts, and utterances, upper bounds are derived on the probability that a decoder recovers a speaker's intended meaning from a representation of the utterance.

Emily Cheng, Ryan Cotterell · 0 citations