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The interplay between language and reasoning| title | The interplay between language and reasoning |
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| start_date | 2025/05/14 |
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| schedule | 16h30-17h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | sur Zoom |
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| summary | Large Language Models, and ChatGPT in particular, have grabbed the attention of the computational linguistics community and the media. Having reached high language proficiency, attention has been shifting toward their reasoning capabilities. It has been shown that they can carry out deductive reasoning steps: they draw inferences from a series of given facts. In this talk, I will argue for the need of models whose language generation is driven by an implicit reasoning process and a communication goal. To support my claim, I will present two papers recently produced within my group: one evaluates LLMs’ formal reasoning skills and the other focuses on LLMs’ information-seeking strategies; to this end, we take syllogisms and the 20-Questions game as test beds. These tasks have been used extensively in cognitive sciences to study human reasoning skills, hence they provide us with a variety of experiments to inspect the language and reasoning interplay in LLMs. |
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| responsibles | Bernard |
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| submitted | published | | 2025/05/14 08:32 UTC |
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