A Modular Architecture for Typologically Controlled Lexicon Generation
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Title:A Modular Architecture for Typologically Controlled Lexicon Generation
Abstract:Constructing artificial lexicons that are pronounceable, typologically plausible, and semantically structured remains an open challenge in computational linguistics. Existing conlang generators either lack formal phonotactic guarantees or delegate generation to opaque, non-reproducible LLM-based pipelines. We propose a modular framework that samples phoneme inventories from PHOIBLE, generates word forms under interchangeable phonological grammars (deterministic, OT, and MaxEnt), and assigns meanings via a Swadesh--Leipzig--Jakarta ontology with explicit form--meaning alignment. Evaluation on character $n$-gram perplexity, log-likelihood, and KL divergence against PHOIBLE across lexicon sizes of 100-5,000 forms shows that probabilistic grammars consistently outperform deterministic and random baselines on both phonotactic coherence and typological realism.
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2605.28824 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2605.28824v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.28824
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From: Sankalp Tattwadarshi Swain [view email][v1] Tue, 7 Apr 2026 04:23:47 UTC (786 KB)
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