Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39871863›Full record

ReviewFrontiers in artificial intelligence2024

The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling.

Jack Grieve, Sara Bartl, Matteo Fuoli, Jason Grafmiller, Weihang Huang, Alejandro Jawerbaum, Akira Murakami, Marcus Perlman, Dana Roemling, Bodo Winter

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in artificial intelligence, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Large Language Models as Distributional Baselines for Language Tasks.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2026
    Article
  2. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Jack GrieveDepartment of Linguistics and Communication, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Sara BartlDepartment of Linguistics and Communication, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Matteo FuoliDepartment of Linguistics and Communication, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Jason GrafmillerDepartment of Linguistics and Communication, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Weihang HuangDepartment of Linguistics and Communication, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Alejandro JawerbaumDepartment of Linguistics and Communication, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Akira MurakamiDepartment of Linguistics and Communication, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Marcus PerlmanDepartment of Linguistics and Communication, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Dana RoemlingDepartment of Linguistics and Communication, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Bodo WinterDepartment of Linguistics and Communication, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this article, we introduce a sociolinguistic perspective on language modeling. We claim that language models in general are inherently modeling

Indexed as

AI ethicsartificial intelligencecomputational sociolinguisticscorpus linguisticslarge language modelsnatural language processingvarieties of language

Identifiers

PMID39871863
PMCPMC11770026

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.