Conveners
Vormittagssession: Text+ Plenary Tag 1
- Elke Teich
The linguistic analysis and investigation of transformer language models has become an established line of research in recent work on LLMs. Typically, the aim of these analyses is to determine whether existing pre-trained LLMs learn human-like linguistic knowledge and generalise linguistic rules in a human-like manner. While this has been extremely fruitful in terms of revealing the linguistic...
Large Language Models (LLMs) are impressively fluent, and seem to function without any modules specially designed to capture grammar or semantic coherence. This can lead us to question even more the (once broadly presumed) relevance of linguistic expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP). In this talk, I will explore six key areas where linguistics, in overt and less overt ways, continues...
