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X-WR-CALNAME:Boulder NLP Seminar: Callysta Caraballo's MA Thesis Defense
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DESCRIPTION:Title: \n\nMLL LLM: Exploring the language acquisition capabili
 ties of an LLM given pedagogical material in comparison with human multi-l
 ingual learners\n\nAbstract:\n\nTo acquire a language\, modern large langu
 age models (LLMs) are typically provided with many trillions of tokens of 
 language data. The data-greedy nature of these LLMs pose a problem when at
 tempting to translate low-resource languages. To address this\, recent pri
 or research has been conducted to test the ability of LLMs to acquire lang
 uage via prompting with reference grammars of low-resource languages. In m
 y thesis\, I extend this method to pedagogical material designed for human
 s acquiring a non-native language by providing T5Gemma with prompts of var
 ying compositions and Japanese textbook data of varying degrees of detail 
 and evaluating its performance on quizzes designed for human learners. I a
 lso provide two participants with the same textbook and quizzes and compar
 e human results with those of the model. I observe that pedagogical materi
 al is largely beneficial for a model to learn an unfamiliar language. Addi
 tionally\, my results highlight several places of overlap between human an
 d model processing of unfamiliar linguistic material\, indicating that LLM
 s may indeed be useful for modeling human language acquisition.
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LOCATION:Muenzinger Psychology\, D430
SUMMARY:Boulder NLP Seminar: Callysta Caraballo's MA Thesis Defense
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.colorado.edu/event/boulder-nlp-seminar-cally
 sta-caraballos-ma-thesis-defense
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