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LLMs analyze semiotic relations in mathematical, legal, and everyday arguments

A new study published on arXiv explores the use of large language models (LLMs) to analyze argument structures across different genres. Researchers developed operational definitions for four semiotic relations—syntagmatic, paradigmatic, antithetic, and meronymic—inspired by semiotic research and mapped them to proof methods like inference, analogy, contradiction, and case analysis. The study found significant variations in how these relations are employed, with mathematical proofs utilizing all four, while legal and everyday reasoning predominantly rely on inference. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more sophisticated AI analysis of complex texts and improved AI reasoning capabilities.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Edirlei Soares de Lima, Marco A. Casanova, Antonio L. Furtado ·

    Semiotic Relations and Proof Methods: A Cross-Genre Study of Argument Structure with Large Language Models

    arXiv:2609.15194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a direct proof of a statement $S$ seems hard or even impossible to obtain, there may exist another statement (or set of statements) $S^{*}$, somehow related to $S$, on the basis of which $S$ can be proved. In order to investiga…