11:50am - 12:30pm
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
11:50am - 12:30pm
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Speaker(s)

    Paola Merlo

    University of Geneva

    Events

    The Representation of Language in Brains and Machines
    Stanislas Dehaene, Luigi Rizzi et Stéphane Mallat

    Symposium
    9:30 - 10:00am

    Grammatical Inferences without Words
    Philippe Schlenker

    Symposium
    10:00 - 10:40am

    A Linguistic Learning Bias Found in Humans, Animals, and Artificial Learners
    Emmanuel Chemla

    Symposium
    10:40 - 11:20am

    Bootstrapping the Syntactic Bootstrapper
    Anne Christophe

    Symposium
    11:40am - 12:20pm

    Developmental Syntactic Disorders and What They Say about the Critical Period
    Naama Friedmann

    Symposium
    12:20 - 1:00pm

    Few-Shot Learning Is Still Difficult With Large-Scale Language Models
    Kyunghyun Cho

    Symposium
    3:00 - 3:40pm

    Neural Language Models: The Successes, and the Challenges
    Tomas Mikolov

    Symposium
    3:40 - 4:20pm

    Why Children and Machines Learn Differently
    Charles Yang

    Symposium
    4:40 - 5:20pm

    Grammatical Generalization and Language Processing in Humans and Machines
    Roger Levy

    Symposium
    5:20 - 6:00pm

    General discussion
    Stanislas Dehaene

    Symposium
    6:00 - 7:00pm

    Simulating the Emergence of Linguistic Categories in Infants
    Emmanuel Dupoux

    Symposium
    9:30 - 10:10am

    On the Proper Role of Linguistically-Oriented Deep Net Analysis in Linguistic Theorizing
    Marco Baroni

    Symposium
    10:10 - 10:50am

    The Limits of Competence and Processing: The Case of Copular Sentences
    Andrea Moro et Cristiano Chesi

    Symposium
    11:10 - 11:15am

    Beyond the Benchmarks: Linguistically-Informed Notions of Locality and Similarity in Distributed Spa…
    Paola Merlo

    Symposium
    11:50am - 12:30pm

    Quantifiers in Natural Language: The Interface between Syntax and Logic
    Gennaro Chierchia

    Symposium
    2:00 - 2:40pm

    Logic, Grammar and Distribution: The Case of Polarity Items
    Benjamin Spector

    Symposium
    2:40 - 3:20pm

    Probing Syntax and Semantics in the Brain
    Christophe Pallier

    Symposium
    3:40 - 4:20pm

    The Cortical Organization of Syntax: A Minimalist Perspective
    William Matchin

    Symposium
    4:20 - 5:00pm

    Why Humans Still Trump Machines: The Language of Thought Hypothesis
    Stanislas Dehaene

    Symposium
    5:20 - 6:00pm

    General discussion
    Stanislas Dehaene

    Symposium
    6:00 - 7:00pm

    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