arXiv cs.CL· Giuseppe Samo·· 12 小时前AI 评分20
合成语言数据：区分“合成灌木”与“合成花园”数据
Synthetic linguistic data
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合成语言数据在语言学研究中日益重要，这篇术语条目借用 Bresnan（2016）的“花园与灌木”区分，提出以“人工苗圃”作为合成数据的隐喻。作者将合成数据分为两类：以模型生成文本语料为主的“合成灌木”数据，以及在受控条件下诱导模型输出以检验特定语言学假设的“合成花园”数据。文章认为合成数据构成独立的研究对象，与自然语言数据比较可揭示共性与分歧，但解读时需审慎考虑其生成条件。
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Abstract:Synthetic linguistic data have become increasingly prominent in linguistic research, from the analysis of large collections of AI-generated texts to controlled experiments investigating grammatical and lexical preferences. This glossary entry extends Bresnan's (2016) distinction between the linguistic garden and the bush by introducing an artificial plant nursery as a metaphor for synthetic data. We distinguish between synthetic bush data, consisting primarily of corpus-like collections of model-generated language, and synthetic garden data, in which model outputs are elicited under controlled conditions to investigate specific linguistic hypotheses. We argue that synthetic data constitute a distinct object of linguistic investigation: comparing them with natural language data can reveal both shared patterns and divergences, but their interpretation requires careful consideration of the conditions under which they are generated.
| Comments: | 11 pages |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2610.34215 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2610.34215v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.34215 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
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From: Giuseppe Samo [view email]
[v1]
Sun, 25 Oct 2026 11:11:22 UTC (243 KB)
来源：arXiv cs.CL · arxiv.org