Copilots for Linguists
AI, Constructions, and Frames
Mark Turner author Thomas Hoffmann author Tiago Timponi Torrent author Arthur Lorenzi Almeida author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:1st Feb '24
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AI copilots, especially Large Language Models, can help linguists do research. This Elementgives a detailed tutorial, with full examples.
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 can assist the Construction Grammarian, and especially the Frame Semanticist.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.
ISBN: 9781009439220
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 210g
122 pages