Virginia Valian is Distinguished Professor of psychology at CUNY Hunter College; she is also a member of the linguistics and psychology PhD Programs at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research on how children learn language supports theories of innate grammatical knowledge – particularly linguistic universals – and investigates the interaction of linguistic knowledge and higher cognitive processing. Her work has potential implications for artificial intelligence, particularly how LLMs are trained, how they generalize from training data, and their ability to represent variation and variability in language acquisition.
 

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LLMs, POS, and UG | June 4