MIAI–PRAIRIE Online Seminar on LLMs and the Study of Language, Mind, and Society
Our next speaker will be Adele Goldberg, from Princeton, for a talk on
''Compositionality, creativity in natural language and LLMs’’, on Monday 15
June, 5pm (French time),
Online, free access, with no registration
Organized by Caroline Rossi (Université Grenoble Alpes / MIAI) and Thierry
Poibeau (ENS–PSL / PRAIRIE–PSAI).
Next year’s speakers will include Eloïse Boisseau (AMU, Marseille), and Dallas
Card (U. Michigan), among others.
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*** Compositionality, creativity in natural language and LLMs ***
Monday 15 June, 5pm (French time), online (free access, no registration)
Connexion link:
https://webinaire.numerique.gouv.fr/meeting/signin/invite/78275/creator/43384/hash/e6a75dd21d2dbd5d97bb5a710447e9368de25d42
Adele Goldberg, Princeton
Abstract:
Today’s LLMs interpret and produce familiar and novel language without abstract
symbolic rules. An appreciation of the complexity of natural languages
indicates this is more a feature than a bug. New evidence demonstrates that
LLMs are also at least as creative as the typical person. Parallels between
LLMs and human language highlight the statistical and functional aspects of
both systems. For cognitive scientists, LLMs promise of a deeper understanding
of compositionality and creativity.
Bio:
Adele Goldberg is the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Psychology at Princeton
University. Her research explores the formal, semantic, social, statistical,
and memory-based factors that shape how languages are learned, represented, and
used. She is fascinated by what makes human language both creative and
constrained, across adults and children, first and second language learners,
and neurotypical and atypical populations. Her current work touches on word
meaning, language change, island constraints, metaphor and emotion, good-enough
language production, and the forms and functions of grammatical constructions.
She is a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America, the Association for
Psychological Science, and the Cognitive Science Society, and an elected member
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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