Copilots for linguists : AI, constructions, and frames / Tiago Timponi Torrent [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torrent, Tiago Timponi, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in construction grammar 2753-2674

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computational linguistics.

Artificial intelligence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (113 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

AI can assist the linguist in doing research on the structure of language. This Element illustrates this possibility by showing how a conversational AI based on a Large Language Model (AI LLM chatbot) can assist the Construction Grammarian, and especially the Frame Semanticist. An AI LLM chatbot is a text-generation system trained on vast amounts of text. To generate text, it must be able to find patterns in the data and mimic some linguistic capacity, at least in the eyes of a cooperative human user. The authors do not focus on whether AIs "understand" language. Rather, they investigate whether AI LLM chatbots are useful tools for linguists. They reframe the discussion from what AI LLM chatbots can do with language to what they can do for linguists. They find that a chatty LLM can labor usefully as an eliciting interlocutor, and present precise, scripted routines for prompting conversational LLMs.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Dec 2023).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781009439183

1009439189

9781009439206

1009439200

9781009439190

1009439197