(1) A programming language that uses symbols, or mnemonics, for expressing operations and operands. All modern programming languages are symbolic languages. (2) A language that manipulates symbols ...

How do languages balance the richness of their structures with the need for efficient communication? To investigate, researchers at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim, ...

"If one language is harder to process than another for one model in one corpus, this relationship holds across other models, text types, and even if the model operates on a different symbolic ...