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Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data

Emily M. Bender Alexander Koller

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The success of the large neural language models on many NLP tasks is exciting. However, we find that these successes sometimes lead to hype in which these models are being described as “understanding” language or capturing “meaning”. In this position paper, we argue that a system trained only on form has a priori no way to learn meaning. In keeping with the ACL 2020 theme of “Taking Stock of Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going”, we argue that a clear understanding of the distinction between form and meaning will help guide the field towards better science around natural language understanding.

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Emily M. Bender

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Alexander Koller

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Bender, E.M., Koller, A. (2020). Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.463

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Informasi Jurnal
Tahun Terbit
2020
Bahasa
en
Total Sitasi
1255×
Sumber Database
Semantic Scholar
DOI
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.463
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Open Access ✓