Does ChatGPT know language as humans do: Workshop on NLP and Linguistics
Saturday, 2nd March 2024
Morning session: Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College, Oxford (access from Octagon gates on Longwall Street)
Afternoon session: Summer Common Room, Magdalen College, Oxford (access from Porters' Lodge on High Street)
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Time |
Topic (tentative) |
Speaker |
Location |
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9:00 – 9:15 |
Welcome address |
Danfeng Wu (University of Oxford) |
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9:15 – 10:15 |
High-level tutorial on how an LLM works |
Aleksandar Shtedritski (University of Oxford) |
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10:15 – 11:15 |
Is there an LLM challenge for linguistics? Or a linguistics challenge for LLMs? |
David Pesetsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
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11:15 – 12:15 |
Successes and failures of NLP in addressing the big questions of generative linguistics |
Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford) |
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12:15 – 14:15 |
Lunch break |
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14:15 – 15:15 |
Features of discourse structure and coherence found in the output of LLMs |
Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh) |
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15:15 – 16:15 |
How large and small models help us understand what humans know about language |
Colin Phillips (University of Oxford) |
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16:15 – 16:45 |
Tea and coffee break |
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16:45 – 17:45 |
The right tool for the task? |
Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge) |
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17:45 – 18:15 |
Concluding remarks |
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh) |
This workshop is co-organized by Rahul Santhanam (rahul.santhanam@cs.ox.ac.uk) and Danfeng Wu (danfeng.wu@magd.ox.ac.uk). Please email us if you have any questions!