3. Text+ Plenary 2024

Session

Vormittagssession

10 Oct 2024, 11:15

Aula (Mannheim, Schloss)

Conveners

Vormittagssession: Text+ Plenary Tag 1

• Elke Teich

68. Linguistic Investigations into Large and Small Language Models

Prof. Sina Zarrieß (Universität Bielefeld)

10/10/2024, 11:15

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...

69. Partners in Understanding: How NLP RELIES on Linguistics

Dr Juri Opitz (Universität Zürich)

10/10/2024, 12:00

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...

70. Diskussion

10/10/2024, 12:45