LLMs in Linguistic Research

Academic Year: 2024/25

Author

Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao, Anna Sophia Stein

Photo of the lecturer Akhilesh Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao
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Photo of the TA Anna Stein Anna Stein
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Syllabus

View it online here.

📍 Location

Wednesday, 2:30pm-4pm

Building 23.21 Floor 2, Room 22

🎯 Learning Objectives

Focus: Understanding LLMs and their usage in various linguistics tasks

How: Hands-on learning and paper discussions

  • Gaining an intuition of how LLMs work
  • Getting to know the field of LLM research and development
  • Familiarizing yourself with different LLM architectures
  • Learning how to use them for different linguistics tasks (e.g., text analysis, language generation, and language understanding)
  • Practing using tools like Huggingface for LLM inference and fine-tuning