37.2754, FYI: Monthly Online ILFC Seminar: Interactions between Formal and Computational Linguistics

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Subject: 37.2754, FYI: Monthly Online ILFC Seminar: Interactions between Formal and Computational Linguistics

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Date: 26-Aug-2026
From: Timothée Bernard [timothee.bernard at u-pariscite.fr]
Subject: Monthly Online ILFC Seminar: Interactions between Formal and Computational Linguistics


Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and
computational linguistics
https://gdr-lift.loria.fr/monthy-online-ilfc-seminar/
The LIFT2 research group is happy to announce the forthcoming sessions
of the ILFC seminar on the interactions between formal and
computational linguistics.
The seminar is held on Zoom. To attend the seminar and get updates,
please subscribe to our mailing list (we now only rarely communicate
through other mailing lists):
https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/subscribe/seminaire_ilfc
    10 Sep 2026 16:30-17:30 UTC+2: Leonie Weißweiler (Leipzig
University)
    Title: Expanding the Linguistic Evaluation of Language Models, or:
What to do now that LMs are good
    Abstract: Linguistically motivated benchmarks of language models
have been concerned with formalising a specific property of human
language, developing a benchmark based on this formalisation, and then
evaluating a language model to determine if it has learned this
linguistic property. In this talk, I argue that for English, and for
regular and frequent phenomena, language models have learned the
phenomena with more nuance than the benchmarks can measure. This
should have consequences for how we interpret their performance on
these benchmarks, but more importantly, it opens up interesting new
directions. We can extend linguistic evaluation to rare, irregular
phenomena and low-resource languages, but also place an increased
focus on linguistic interpretability with a view towards comparing
their learning behaviour to competing linguistic theories, and
suggesting expansions to those theories by using LMs as simulation
models. I will share examples and insights from recent work in this
direction, monolingually for the paired-focus and caused-motion
constructions, as well as multilingually for subject-verb agreement
and word order, and formulate what I think will be important
directions in this area going forward.
    15 Oct 2026 16:30-17:30 UTC+2: Robin Ryder (Imperial College
London)
    Title: [TBA]
    Abstract: [TBA]
    19 Nov 2026 16:30-17:30 UTC+1: Su Lin Blodgett (Mila)
    Title: [TBA]
    Abstract: [TBA]
    10 Dec 2026 16:30-17:30 UTC+1: Jonathan Ginzburg (Université Paris
Cité)
    Title: [TBA]
    Abstract: [TBA]

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories




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