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Exploring Language in Different Daily Time Segments Through Text Prediction and Language Modeling

2025· article· W7128810986 on OpenAlexafffund
Kennedy Roland, Milton King

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Language
FieldComputer Science
TopicTopic Modeling
Canadian institutionsSt. Francis Xavier University
FundersSt. Francis Xavier University
KeywordsLanguage modelNatural languageModeling languageLanguage identificationFeature (linguistics)Data modeling

Abstract

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Temporal-aware language models have proved to be effective over longer time periods as language and its use changes, but little research has looked at how language use can change at different times of the day.We hypothesize that a person's usage of language varies at different times of day.We explore this concept by evaluating if models for language modeling and next word prediction improve their performance when considering the time of day.Specifically, we explore personalized temporalaware models for next-word prediction and language modeling and compare them against baseline models, including non-temporal-aware personalized models.Specifically, our proposed model considers which of the 8, 3-hr daily time segments that a text snippet was written during for a given author.We found that our temporal-aware models tend to outperform temporal-agnostic models with respect to accuracy and perplexity.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.023

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.003
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.053
GPT teacher head0.268
Teacher spread0.215 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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