2025
What We Talk About When We Talk About LMs: Implicit Paradigm Shifts and the Ship of Language Models
NAACL 2025long
The term Language Models (LMs) as a time-specific collection of models of interest is constantly reinvented, with its referents updated much like the *Ship of Theseus* replaces its parts but remains the same ship in essence. In this paper, we investigate this *Ship of Language Models* problem, where…