11:50 to 12:30
Symposium

Beyond the Benchmarks: Linguistically-Informed Notions of Locality and Similarity in Distributed Spaces

Advances in Syntax and Parsing

Paola Merlo
The Representation of Language in Brains and Machines
11:50 to 12:30
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Speaker(s)

    Paola Merlo

    University of Geneva

    Events

    Symposium
    09:30 to 10:00
    Stanislas Dehaene, Luigi Rizzi et Stéphane Mallat

    The Representation of Language in Brains and Machines
    Symposium
    10:00 to 10:40
    Philippe Schlenker

    Grammatical Inferences without Words
    Symposium
    10:40 to 11:20
    Emmanuel Chemla

    A Linguistic Learning Bias Found in Humans, Animals, and Artificial Learners
    Symposium
    11:40 to 12:20
    Anne Christophe

    Bootstrapping the Syntactic Bootstrapper
    Symposium
    12:20 to 13:00
    Naama Friedmann

    Developmental Syntactic Disorders and What They Say about the Critical Period
    Symposium
    15:00 to 15:40
    Kyunghyun Cho

    Few-Shot Learning Is Still Difficult With Large-Scale Language Models
    Symposium
    15:40 to 16:20
    Tomas Mikolov

    Neural Language Models: The Successes, and the Challenges
    Symposium
    16:40 to 17:20
    Charles Yang

    Why Children and Machines Learn Differently
    Symposium
    17:20 to 18:00
    Roger Levy

    Grammatical Generalization and Language Processing in Humans and Machines
    Symposium
    18:00 to 19:00
    Stanislas Dehaene

    General discussion
    Symposium
    09:30 to 10:10
    Emmanuel Dupoux

    Simulating the Emergence of Linguistic Categories in Infants
    Symposium
    10:10 to 10:50
    Marco Baroni

    On the Proper Role of Linguistically-Oriented Deep Net Analysis in Linguistic Theorizing
    Symposium
    11:10 to 11:15
    Andrea Moro et Cristiano Chesi

    The Limits of Competence and Processing: The Case of Copular Sentences
    Symposium
    11:50 to 12:30
    Paola Merlo

    Beyond the Benchmarks: Linguistically-Informed Notions of Locality and Similarity in Distributed Spa…
    Symposium
    14:00 to 14:40
    Gennaro Chierchia

    Quantifiers in Natural Language: The Interface between Syntax and Logic
    Symposium
    14:40 to 15:20
    Benjamin Spector

    Logic, Grammar and Distribution: The Case of Polarity Items
    Symposium
    15:40 to 16:20
    Christophe Pallier

    Probing Syntax and Semantics in the Brain
    Symposium
    16:20 to 17:00
    William Matchin

    The Cortical Organization of Syntax: A Minimalist Perspective
    Symposium
    17:20 to 18:00
    Stanislas Dehaene

    Why Humans Still Trump Machines: The Language of Thought Hypothesis
    Symposium
    18:00 to 19:00
    Stanislas Dehaene

    General discussion

    See also

    Stanislas Dehaene, chair Experimental Cognitive Psychology
    Stéphane Mallat, chair Data science
    Luigi Rizzi, chair General Linguistics
    The Representation of Language in Brains and Machines