#  Week of February 22 

 





February 22, 2021

 

 

###  Language Universals Workshop 

 [Tal Linzen](https://tallinzen.net) (NYU)

 "Neural networks as cognitive models of syntax"

 **Abstract:** Speakers of a language generalize their knowledge of syntax in a systematic way to constructions they have never encountered before. This observation has motivated the influential position in linguistics that humans are innately endowed with syntax-specific inductive biases. The applied success of deep learning systems that are not designed with such biases invites a reconsideration of this position. In this talk, I will review work that uses paradigms from psycholinguistics to examine the syntactic generalization capabilities of contemporary neural network architectures. Alongside some successes, this work suggests that human-like generalization requires stronger inductive biases than those expressed in standard neural network architectures.

 Friday, February 26 | 12:00-1:30pm EST | Check email for Zoom link



 

 

 



 

 

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