Understanding Understanding — in General, and in Large Language Models
Salle des voûtes, St Charles 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille, FranceDavid Schlangen : Professor, "Foundations of Computational Linguistics", University of Potsdam Abstract: In the first part of the talk I will present an overview of the activities of my group (Foundations of CompLing at Uni Potsdam), organised around the quest to understand how linguistic communication can yield shared understanding. I will present an analytical framework […]
Anne-Lise Giraud
Salle des voûtes, St Charles 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille, FranceAtelier doctorants et postdocs de l’ILCB,
Espace Pouillon 3 place Victor Hugo, MarseilleWorkshop on Language Evolution
Salle des voûtes, St Charles 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille, FranceKlaus Zuberbuhler Revisiting the origins of meaning The three core properties of language – meaning, syntax and social interaction - have received considerable comparative research attention in recent years, driven by a desire to advance theories of language evolution. Somewhat surprisingly, progress on the origins of meaning has been least remarkable, after the initial pioneering […]
Subdivide and Conquer. brain processing of musical melody, harmony and rhythm
Salle des voûtes, St Charles 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille, FrancePeter Vuust : Director of the Center for Music in the Brain (MIB), MSc, PhD, Prof. in Neuroscience, Dept. of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Prof. in Music, the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark, Bassist and composer Music is ubiquitous across human cultures—as a source of affective and pleasurable experience, moving us both physically […]
Conference on Multilingualism
The Conference on Multilingualism (COM) 2024 will be held from June 10th to 12th at ''Le Cube'' on the campus of Aix-Marseille Université, in the beautiful city of Aix-en-Provence. It is an annual international venue for research on bilingualism and multilingualism and follows recent COM meetings, held in Ghent, Leiden, Reading and most recently Konstanz. […]