Schedule StuTS 68

Computational Linguistics is a field that shares concerns with many other disciplines that take language as their object: considerations about computability of structures with theoretical linguistics, questions of processing with psycholinguistics, and implementational problems with Natural Language Processing (NLP) as a part of applied computer science. In this "meta-disciplinary" talk, I argue that Computational Linguistics (CL) can carve out as its genuine, own object the simulation of language use by linguistic agents. I will describe what the current practices of CL are and how they relate to those of linguistics proper and those of the field of NLP. I will argue that this approach of studying language in the form of decontextualised "language tasks" does not scale to the study of linguistic agents. I will argue for the augmentation of language task datasets with language environments, and show some initial work in this direction from our group and others.

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Short Bio:

David Schlangen is professor of the "Foundations of Computational Linguistics" at the University of Potsdam, Germany. His research focuses on language use in interaction, both from theoretical and empirical perspectives, as well as with a view on building improved and more natural human/computer and human/robot interfaces. He is co-author of over 150 technical papers, and recipient of several best paper awards in recent years. Before coming to Potsdam in 2019, he was a professor of Applied Computational Linguistics at Bielefeld University and associated with the Cluster of Excellence "Cognitive Interaction Technology". He holds a PhD in Cognitive Science and Informatics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Day: 2020-11-21
Start time: 14:00
Duration: 01:00
Room: Ruqaiya Hasan
Track: Applied Linguistics
Language: en

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