Episode 24 - Language and its computational models, in conversation with Afra Alishahi

In this episode of The Fly-Bottle Podcast, we had a conversation with Afra Alishahi. We discussed computational models of natural language and their challenges, rule-governed structure and meaning in language, Chomsky’s perspective on universal grammar, poverty of stimulus in language learning, modal independence in natural language, experimental research on children, large language models and their relationship with natural language, interpretability of large language models, and more.

Afra Alishahi, Professor of Computational Linguistics at Tilburg University

Host: Aghil Abed Zadeh

Audio: Behdad Chalaki

Music: Reza Nadri

Cover art: Pouya Fatoureh Chi

Produced by: Mehdi Ebrahimpour