36.151, Books: Copilots for Linguists: Tiago Timponi Torrent, Thomas Hoffmann, Arthur Lorenzi Almeida, Mark Turner

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Subject: 36.151, Books: Copilots for Linguists: Tiago Timponi Torrent, Thomas Hoffmann, Arthur Lorenzi Almeida, Mark Turner

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Date: 14-Jan-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Copilots for Linguists: Tiago Timponi Torrent, Thomas Hoffmann, Arthur Lorenzi Almeida, Mark Turner


Title: Copilots for Linguists
Subtitle: AI, Constructions, and Frames
Series Title: Elements in Construction Grammar
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://cambridge.org/9781009439220

Author(s): Tiago Timponi Torrent, Thomas Hoffmann, Arthur Lorenzi
Almeida, Mark Turner

Paperback 9781009439220: £17.00/ $22.00 / 19.84 EURO
Hardback 9781009475907: £49.99 / $64.99 / 58.34 EURO

Abstract:

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.

Written In: English (eng)



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