Colloquium Talk – Sarah Phillips: No escape from morphemes in the bilingual mind
In the bilingualism literature, most agree that the bilingual lexicon contains elements from both languages that can be activated non-selectively during processing (Kroll et al., 2013). Popular models of the bilingual lexicon often take an emergentist approach, such as Dijkstra & Van Heuven’s (2002) BIA+ model, drawing direct connections between form and meaning. A...
Faculty Meeting
Campbell 2122A/BColloquium Talk – Bronwyn Bjorkman
Location - Haines Hall 220
Colloquium Talk – Emily Bender: Synthetic text extruding machines: A linguist-eye view on their narrow range of applicability
Since the release of ChatGPT but also other large language models (Claude, Bard, LLaMA etc), the internet has been awash in synthetic text, with suggested applications including robo-lawyers, robo-therapists, and robo-journalists. All of these applications present unacceptable risks because language models are nothing more than ungrounded text synthesis machines. In this talk, I demystify...
Colloquium Talk – Yang Wang
Location - Franz 1260
Faculty Meeting
2122 Campbell HallColloquium Talk – Jake Aziz
Location - Haines Hall 220