Stanford PhD JulieKallini on testing Chomsky: can LMs learn a language no human could?
ChrisGPotts · x · 2026-11-06
Stanford PhD researcher JulieKallini appears on the Women in AI Research podcast (hosted by Jey Han Novikova), discussing her ACL 2024 Best Paper, which put Noam Chomsky's claim to an empirical test: can a language model learn a language no human ever could? Available on YouTube.
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