Monday, 25 November 2024 - MSDRT: A formal framework for a communication-theoretic semantics and pragmatics of natural language
MSDRT (‘Mental State Discourse Representation Theory’) is an extension of DRT that was originally designed to provide a semantic treatment of multiple attitude attributions, like ‘John believes there is a new drug against high blood pressure and he wants to get hold of it as soon as possible.’ This can be a true report of what John believes and wants, even if John’s belief is false and there is no such new drug. But how is the anaphora of ‘it’ to ‘a new drug’ to be construed so that the right predictions are made about the truth conditions of such complex attributions?
Termín a místo konání: 14:00, MFF UK, Malostranské nám. 25, 4th floor, room S1
Monday, 18 November 2024 - The Unnatural Language of Poetic Meters, or Why I Am Scared of SystematicityMonday
While poetic meters are shaped and constrained by language, they also are external to it. No one speaks to their coworkers in iambic pentameter. Meters function as cultural technologies, imposing a systematic pattern on a language that is itself already full of structured relationships. The interaction between these two systems leads to predictable, yet often unintuitive, effects at various textual levels. In large corpora, these effects accumulate into strong statistical regularities, becoming a major source of linguistic variation.
Termín a místo konání: 14:00, MFF UK, Malostranské nám. 25, 4th floor, room S1
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
