Topic: Language learning

SQI Seminar Series: Tal Linzen, NYU

Tal Linzen, an associate professor of linguistics and data science at New York University and a research scientist at Google, will speak in MIT's Siegel Family Quest for Intelligence seminar series. His work combines behavioral experiments and computational methods to study language learning and comprehension, alongside large-language-model post-training, evaluation, and interpretability.

Surprising generalizations in the neural implementation of Hebrew and English word reading