36.1188, Confs: CIDL25 Workshop: Do LLMs exhibit natural-language processing cognitive abilities? (Romania)

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Date: 07-Apr-2025
From: Monica Vasileannu [colocviu.lingvistica.2025 at gmail.com]
Subject: CIDL25 Workshop: Do LLMs exhibit natural-language processing cognitive abilities?


CIDL25 Workshop: Do LLMs exhibit natural-language processing cognitive
abilities?
Short Title: CIDL25
Theme: Do LLMs exhibit natural-language processing cognitive
abilities?

Date: 21-Nov-2025 - 22-Nov-2025
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Meeting URL: https://litere.ro/cidl-en/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics;
General Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax

Submission Deadline: 15-Sep-2025

Convenors: Andrei Mărășoiu, Sandra Brânzaru (Faculty of Philosophy),
Alexandru Nicolae (Faculty of Letters)
We invite submissions to a workshop to be held within the 25th
International Conference of the Department of Linguistics of the
Faculty of Letters.
Questions we aim to explore:
 • Do LLMs have metalinguistic abilities (do they have the ability to
generate analyses of language data/theoretical linguistic abilities of
language samples so as to identify whether a sentence is syntactically
ambiguous? How well do they handle linguistic recursion tasks? Can
they identify what type of recursion a sentence contains (adjectival,
possessive, PP…)? Can they draw a syntactic tree for it and add more
layers of recursion?
 • Do LLMs meet plausible criteria associated with linguistic
metasemantic theories or mental metasemantic theories (cf.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-024-04723-8)?
 • What would it mean for a Large Language Model to understand or
acquire a language? What would it mean for them to meaningfully use a
language or words? Is understanding language or grasping the meaning
of words based on an innate structure? Does that structure need to be
biological? Do LLMs need sensory grounding for language understanding?
 • Are LLMs outputs based on linguistic representations? Do LLMs have
internal representations? What would that mean? What kind of
representations would that mean? If they do, then do they acquire
them? Can connectionism account for it?
 • Can LLMs actually tell us something about Universal Grammar? Are
there alternative ways for acquiring language? Can LLMs learn new
languages via identification of grammar rules within data patterns?
Abstracts should clearly state the research questions, approach,
method, data and (expected) results. They should not exceed 300 words
(including examples, excluding references) and should be sent to
colocviu.lingvistica.2025 at gmail.com.
Call deadline: September 15, 2025.
Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2025.



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