"A Roman, a Hellene, and an Abbasid walk into a café…"

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Authors: Mandar Marathe
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Abstract

Put Latin, Ancient Greek and Arabic words into a bag. Jumble them all up. Then ask AI to make sense of them all. What could possibly go wrong? Well… turns out that it can break your AI models completely! So, today we removed all the Latin and Ancient Greek synonyms for Arabic rhetorical devices in the Encyclopedia of Arabic Rhetoric, a landmark in the development of the Encyclopedia.

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Digital Humanities and Scholarship Natural Language Processing Techniques Lexicography and Language Studies

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Publication date
3 February 2026