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SUMMARY:Linguistics and English Language Seminar: 'Computational Linguist
 ics Will Not Solve All Your Problems'
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jonathan Dunn\, University of Illinois Urbana-Champa
 ign\n\nThe age of Large Language Models (LLMs) has created an over-confi
 dence in computational experiments. As a computational linguist\, I stro
 ngly believe that computational models can tell us a great deal about ho
 w language works and how it is used. But this over-confidence has allowe
 d poorly-defined notions like scale or accuracy to cover up major method
 ological flaws in computational experiments. This talk discusses seven s
 erious shortcomings that need to be overcome before computational lingui
 stics can actually be useful for linguistics as a discipline.
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LOCATION:Blended Th1 (GA.056)\, Nancy Rothwell Building\, Booth Street Ea
 st\, Manchester\, M13 9PL
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