Upcoming Events

Dynamical phenomena in transformers (and some newer thoughts on how cognitive science can inform AI)

Stephanie Chan – Staff Research Scientist Google DeepMind 

March 4th, 2:00pm, SGM 911 (Zoom Presentation)

Past Events

Mapping & Decoding Language Representations from Human Cortex

Alexander Huth, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience & Statistics

University of California, Berkeley

December 3, 2:00pm, Ginsburg Hall Auditorium

Flyer for Alex Huth's Speaker Series

LLM and human language: representations, judgments, and historical change

Adele E. Goldberg, Ph.D. (M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Psychology, Princeton)

September 10th, 2:00 PM, Joyce J. Cammilleri Hall

Learning Representations of ComplexMeaning in the Human Brain

Leila Wehbe, Ph.D.

Machine Learning & Neuroscience, Carnegie Mellon

Lunch with the Speaker (only for those attending the talk) – 1:00 pm Talk – 2:00 pm

February 12, 2025 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Register: tinyurl.com/cclseventfeb12

NLP for uncovering latent meaning in the language of police, politicians and pretrained language models

Dan Jurafsky, Stanford
April 2, 2025 at 2pm (lunch provided at 1pm to talk attendees only)
Cammilleri Hall, Brain and Creativity Institute
Register: https://tinyurl.com/cclsapril2

Dan Jurafsky is Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Computer Science, and Reynolds Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. His research focuses on NLP, including its implications for society and its applications to linguistics and the other cognitive and social sciences. He is a 2002 MacArthur Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the ACL, the LSA, and AAAS. His trade book “The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu” was an international bestseller and a finalist for the 2015 James Beard Award. Dan received a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992 from the University of California at Berkeley.

Computational Architecture of Speech Comprehension

Laura Gwilliams, Ph.D (Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stanford)

November 20th, 2024

1:00-3:00pm

Theory of Human Language Processing in the Era of Large Language Models

Roger Levy, Ph.D (Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT)

October 2nd, 2024

1:00-3:00pm