From Formal Language Theory to Statistical Learning: Finite Observability of Subregular Languages
arXiv cs.CL / 3/16/2026
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Key Points
- The authors prove that all standard subregular language classes are linearly separable by their deciding predicates, establishing finite observability and learnability with simple linear models.
- Synthetic experiments show perfect separability in noise-free conditions, while real-data experiments on English morphology indicate learned features align with well-known linguistic constraints.
- The work argues that the subregular hierarchy provides a rigorous and interpretable foundation for modeling natural language structure, bridging formal language theory and practical NLP.
- The authors provide code for their experiments on GitHub, enabling reproducibility and potential adoption in related NLP modeling efforts.
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