Pia Sommerauer

Pia Sommerauer is an assistant professor at VU Amsterdam. Her research focuses on understanding how people use language to form (social) categories and on how language models represent social and semantic categories. She approaches these questions from interdisciplinary perspectives and collaborates with experts in fields such as communication science and philosophy. She teaches courses in programming and Natural Language Processing to diverse and interdisciplinary groups of students.

Language, Perspectives, and Generalization: the Language of (Large) Language Models
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The lecture investigates in how far models can perform interpretation and abstraction to such a degree that they can solve analogies. Social perspectives found in training models and sterotyping as well as user behaviour towards models are discussed.
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Pia Sommerauer

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Language, Perspectives, and Generalization: the Language of (Large) Language Models