Linguistic Theory-Based Approaches to Large Language Models

Catalog description

Emergence of models of natural language processing provides new opportunities for linguistic theoretical approaches to provide disciplinary perspectives to the toolbox of these models, how they interact with linguistic theories in the context of generating & utilization of text, narrative & dialogue in AI. Focus on principal linguistic theories -generative grammar, sociolinguistics, speech act theory, cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, cognitive neurolinguistics. BARD, Llama 2, BERT, Chat GPT, GPT-NEO used in examining large language models. Role of humans in labeling data, understanding domains, multilingual perspectives.