Most of the world’s 7,000 languages will never have enough written text online to train an AI translation system. However, linguists have…

LLMs abandon reasoning for guesswork when instructions get long, new work from Linguistics PhD student Jackson Petty & CDS shows.

Tal Linzen's group at NYU is hiring a post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and int...

At a conceptual level, LLMs profoundly change the landscape for theories of human language, of the brain and computation, and of the nature of human intelligence. In linguistics, they provide a new wa...

Language models are typically evaluated on their success at predicting the distribution of specific words in specific contexts. Yet linguistic knowledge also encodes relationships between contexts, al...