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LLM Agents as Computational Typologists

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 7, 2026 · UTC

Linguistic typology relies on expert analysis of reference grammars across languages, making large-scale crosslinguistic comparison labor-intensive and unscalable. We introduce AUTOTYPOLOGIST, an LLM agent for evidence-grounded typological analysis over reference grammars. The agent is capable of retrieving relevant grammar sections, analyzing interlinear glossed text (IGT), and iteratively reasoning over typological hypotheses using a ReAct-style workflow. We evaluate the system on TYPOLOGICAL FEATURE CODING against expert annotations and TYPOLOGICAL HYPOTHESIS TESTING with typological univer

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