Slide 12
Slide 12 text
Case1: Enhancing feasibility of psycholinguistic research
l NLP---a branch of artificial intelligence focusing on language
l Go back to the definition of artificial intelligence [Shapiro, 2008]:
2022/12/6 MBZUAI
… definition may be examined more closely by considering the
field from three points of view:
1. Machine intelligence---push outwards the frontier of what we know
how to program on computers, especially in the direction of tasks that,
although we don’t know how to program them, people can perform.
progressed (I believe)
progressed (I believe)
E.g., machine translation,
information retrieval…
E.g., gigantic language
models
2. Computational philosophy---form a computational understanding of human-
level intelligent behavior, without being restricted to the algorithms and data
structures that the human mind actually does (or conceivably might) use.
(if human-level intelligence is implementable on a computer by any means)
3. Computational psychology---understand human intelligent behavior by
creating computer programs that behave in the same way that people do. For this
goal it is important that the algorithm expressed by the program be the same
algorithm that people actually use, and the data structure…
often unstated,
but pivotal goal
Q. What’s the key to humans’ efficient language acquisition?
Do some innate biases relate to?
Raising children without any language experience from birth, then… [Coulton, 1972]
Ethical issues
As a computational simulation of human language acquisition,
we trained language models under the situation as close as
possible to the human language acquisition environment (e.g.,
multi-modality input), then identify which factors were important.
[Warstadt&Bowman, 2022]
Feasible