Monday, 14 October, 2024 - Breaking the Curse of Multilinguality in Language Models
The talk will focus on examining how current language models capture different languages and uncover how the curse of multilinguality develops during multilingual model training. Building on these insights, I will then present a new method, Multilingual Expert Language Models (X-ELM), that breaks this curse of multilinguality by facilitating more equitable multilingual language modeling.
Termín a místo konání: 14:00, MFF UK, Malostranské nám. 25, 4th floor, room S1
Monday, 7 October, 2024 - Cognitive insights into analysis of translationese combining product and process data
The talk will be focused on "translationese," which refers to the specific linguistic properties of translation that distinguish it from non-translated language production. While these phenomena have been extensively analyzed in both human and machine translation studies, the driving forces behind translationese effects such as simplification and explicitation remain under-researched.
Termín a místo konání: 14:00, MFF UK, Malostranské nám. 25, 4th floor, room S1
Linguistic Mondays and Fred Jelinek Seminar series
We invite you to four lectures that will take place in April as part of Linguistic Mondays and Fred Jelinek Seminar series organized by the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics MFF UK.
Termín a místo konání: Dubnové pondělky - 14:00, Praha, Malostranské náměstí 25, místnost S1
Dominik Macháček (ÚFAL MFF UK): We investigate the opportunity to use multiple parallel speech signals - the original and simultaneous interpreting - as sources for translation to achieve higher quality of the simultaneous speech translation. We create an evaluation set ESIC (Europarl Simultaneous Interpreting Corpus).
Termín a místo konání: Pondělí, 4.března 2024 - 14:00, MFF UK, Malostranské nám. 25, 4.patro, místnost S1
Understanding, Meaning, and Representations in Large Language Models
Significant in contemporary language processing applications, Large Language Models (LLMs) have become indispensable across diverse domains, ranging from improving chatbot interactions and language translation to code generation and the creation of imaginative content. The question of whether LLMs truly comprehend language has been posed repeatedly, often eliciting a resolute negative response.
Termín a místo konání: 4.12. 2023 (14:00), MFF UK, Malostranské nám. 25, 4.patro, místnost S1