CANCELLED! Prof. Alexander Koller seminar: 'Untrustworthy and still revolutionary: Some thoughts on how LLMs are changing NLP'

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There is no doubt that large language models (LLMs) are revolutionising the field of natural language processing (NLP) in many ways. There are many doubts on whether this a good thing, whether we will ever be able to overcome their inability to reliably distinguish truth from falsehood, whether there is any place left for pre-LLM models, and how to do good science any more.

Alexander Koller is a Professor of Computational Linguistics in the Department of Language Science and Technology at Saarland University. He is also a Professor by courtesy of Computer Science. Koller: "I do not have definitive answers on any of these questions, and am personally torn on many of them. In this talk, I will first discuss some recent research on the limitations of LLMs and on overcoming them through the use of neurosymbolic models, in tasks such as semantic parsing and planning. I would then like to share some of my more general thoughts on science and engineering in NLP in the era of LLMs."

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