Modelling Language using Large Language Models
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| author | Grindrod, Jumbly |
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| contents | This paper argues that large language models have a valuable scientific role to play in serving as scientific models of public languages. Linguistic study should not only be concerned with the cognitive processes behind linguistic competence, but also with language understood as an external, social entity. Once this is recognized, the value of large language models as scientific models becomes clear. This paper defends the position against a number of arguments to the effect that language models provide no linguistic insight. Building upon Weisberg's (2007) notion of a model construal, it is then argued that recent work in computational linguistics to better understand the inner workings of large language models can be used to develop a model construal for large language models as models of a language. |
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| spellingShingle | Modelling Language using Large Language Models Grindrod, Jumbly Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence This paper argues that large language models have a valuable scientific role to play in serving as scientific models of public languages. Linguistic study should not only be concerned with the cognitive processes behind linguistic competence, but also with language understood as an external, social entity. Once this is recognized, the value of large language models as scientific models becomes clear. This paper defends the position against a number of arguments to the effect that language models provide no linguistic insight. Building upon Weisberg's (2007) notion of a model construal, it is then argued that recent work in computational linguistics to better understand the inner workings of large language models can be used to develop a model construal for large language models as models of a language. |
| title | Modelling Language using Large Language Models |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09579 |