Linguistics and English Language Seminar: 'Computational Linguistics Will Not Solve All Your Problems'
| Dates: | 30 April 2026 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 13:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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Speaker: Jonathan Dunn, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The age of Large Language Models (LLMs) has created an over-confidence in computational experiments. As a computational linguist, I strongly believe that computational models can tell us a great deal about how language works and how it is used. But this over-confidence has allowed poorly-defined notions like scale or accuracy to cover up major methodological flaws in computational experiments. This talk discusses seven serious shortcomings that need to be overcome before computational linguistics can actually be useful for linguistics as a discipline.
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