In Pursuit of the Meaning of Language: The Role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Generation (NLG)
| Dates: | 22 January 2025 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 15:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Department of Computer Science |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff |
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| Speaker: | Prof. Chenghua Lin |
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Large Language Models (LLMs), such as the GPT-x family, have taken the natural language processing (NLP) and generation (NLG) fields, if not the whole world, by storm. In this talk, I will reflect on my journey in NLP and NLG research, showcasing how LLMs bridge critical gaps in these domains. I will focus on a number of critical areas, including novel generation tasks (e.g., creative generation and lay summarisation), robust evaluation methods, data contamination, and inference efficiency. I will also present my work on extending LLMs to other modalities, such as music, and discuss the interplay between language and other modalities, including visual inputs, where I believe multimodal research paves the way for advancing a wide range of disciplines. Finally, I will conclude my talk by highlighting future directions and challenges, as well as the broader impacts of LLMs.
Speaker
Prof. Chenghua Lin
Role: Professor of Natural Language Processing in the Department of Computer Science
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Biography: Chenghua Lin is Professor of Natural Language Processing in the Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester. His research interests lie in the integration of machine learning and NLP for language generation and understanding, as well as representation learning and generation for music. He has received several prizes and awards for his research, including a CIKM Test-of-Time Award and an INLG Best Paper Runner-up Award. He is the Secretary of the ACL SIGGEN Board, a Member of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee, and a founding Advisor of the Multimodal Art Projection community.
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