Yale linguists will present at AI at Yale event

Thursday, May 8, 2025
  • 10:00 to 10:45: Claire Bowern will present a poster on “AI and the Voynich Manuscript” (Kline Tower)
  • 11:00 to 12:15: 
    • Claire Bowern will present a poster on “AI and the Voynich Manuscript” (Kline Tower)
    • Herbert Zhou, Miranda Zhu, and Tom McCoy will present two side-by-side posters on “Understanding the abilities of AI systems” and “How to evaluate large language models: Insights from linguistics” (Kline Tower)
    • Madeline Gupta will present a poster on “Echo: Machine Learning for an Anishinaabemowin Text Generation”, a project supervised by Tom McCoy (Kline Tower)
    • Deja Dunlap will present a poster on “A Comparative Evaluation of the Usage of African-American Vernacular English in Large Language Models”, a project supervised by Tom McCoy (Kline Tower)
  • 1:30 to 2:15: Claire Bowern and Tom McCoy will be on a panel on “LLMs: Language Acquisition, Social Reasoning, and Evaluation”, along with John Muchovej from the Department of Psychology (Kline Tower)
  • 2:30 to 3:45: Maria Piñango will moderate a session on “Critical Cultural Contexts: Social Aspects of Language and LLMs” (Marsh Auditorium)