Survey of the state of the art in natural language generation: Core tasks, applications and evaluation

A Gatt, E Krahmer - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2018 - jair.org
This paper surveys the current state of the art in Natural Language Generation (NLG),
defined as the task of generating text or speech from non-linguistic input. A survey of NLG is …

Robots that use language

S Tellex, N Gopalan, H Kress-Gazit… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
This article surveys the use of natural language in robotics from a robotics point of view. To
use human language, robots must map words to aspects of the physical world, mediated by …

[HTML][HTML] Modern language models refute Chomsky's approach to language

ST Piantadosi - From fieldwork to linguistic theory: A tribute to …, 2023 - books.google.com
Modern machine learning has subverted and bypassed the theoretical framework of
Chomsky's generative approach to linguistics, including its core claims to particular insights …

From word models to world models: Translating from natural language to the probabilistic language of thought

L Wong, G Grand, AK Lew, ND Goodman… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
How does language inform our downstream thinking? In particular, how do humans make
meaning from language--and how can we leverage a theory of linguistic meaning to build …

The neural architecture of language: Integrative modeling converges on predictive processing

M Schrimpf, IA Blank, G Tuckute, C Kauf… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
The neuroscience of perception has recently been revolutionized with an integrative
modeling approach in which computation, brain function, and behavior are linked across …

Survey of low-resource machine translation

B Haddow, R Bawden, AVM Barone, J Helcl… - Computational …, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
We present a survey covering the state of the art in low-resource machine translation (MT)
research. There are currently around 7,000 languages spoken in the world and almost all …

The neural architecture of language

M Schrimpf, IA Blank, G Tuckute, C Kauf… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - JSTOR
The neuroscience of perception has recently been revolutionized with an integrative
modeling approach in which computation, brain function, and behavior are linked across …

The web as a knowledge-base for answering complex questions

A Talmor, J Berant - arxiv preprint arxiv:1803.06643, 2018 - arxiv.org
Answering complex questions is a time-consuming activity for humans that requires
reasoning and integration of information. Recent work on reading comprehension made …

The now-or-never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language

MH Christiansen, N Chater - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2016 - cambridge.org
Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

QNLP in practice: Running compositional models of meaning on a quantum computer

R Lorenz, A Pearson, K Meichanetzidis… - Journal of Artificial …, 2023 - jair.org
Abstract Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP) deals with the design and
implementation of NLP models intended to be run on quantum hardware. In this paper, we …