Reminder : MIAI–PRAIRIE Online Seminar: Adele Goldberg (Princeton): Compositionality, creativity in natural language and LLMs (15/6, 5pm)

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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