Emily M. Bender — Language Models and Linguistics

Emily M. Bender — Language Models and Linguistics

In this episode, Emily and Lukas dive into the problems with bigger and bigger language models, the difference between form and meaning, the limits of benchmarks, and why it's important to name the languages we study.

Show notes (links to papers and transcript): http://wandb.me/gd-emily-m-bender

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Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Linguistics at and Faculty Director of the Master's Program in Computational Linguistics at University of Washington. Her research areas include multilingual grammar engineering, variation (within and across languages), the relationship between linguistics and computational linguistics, and societal issues in NLP.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Sneak peek, intro

1:03 Stochastic Parrots

9:57 The societal impact of big language models

16:49 How language models can be harmful

26:00 The important difference between linguistic form and meaning

34:40 The octopus thought experiment

42:11 Language acquisition and the future of language models

49:47 Why benchmarks are limited

54:38 Ways of complementing benchmarks

1:01:20 The #BenderRule

1:03:50 Language diversity and linguistics

1:12:49 Outro

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