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Understanding Understanding — in General, and in Large Language Models
Salle des voûtes, St Charles 3 place Victor Hugo, MarseilleDavid 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 […]
A Large-Scale Analysis of Human Question-Asking Strategies in a Referential Visual Search Task
Alberto Testoni, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation - University of Amsterdam. Abstract: In recent years, a multitude of datasets of human–human conversations has been released for the main purpose of training conversational agents based on data-hungry artificial neural networks. Datasets of this sort represent a useful and underexplored source to validate, complement, […]