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SUMMARY:Cognitive Science
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Deniss Fjodorovs\, Santa Bartušēvica\, Jurgis Skil
 ters\, Santa Bartusevica (University of Latvia)\n\nThe Laboratory for Perc
 eptual and Cognitive Systems at the Faculty of Science and Technology\, Un
 iversity of Latvia invites you to the session "Cognitive Science" (83rd In
 ternational Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia)\, which wil
 l take place on Friday\, February 21 at 14:00 (on Zoom)\, in Latvian and E
 nglish.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://lu-lv.zoom.us/j/97550585984 Meeting ID: 9
 75 5058 5984Session consists of two parts:Perceptual and cognitive systems
  and processes\;Visuospatial processes as indicators of neurodegenerative 
 and mental disorders.ProgramKeynote Talk:Dimensions of Explanatory Value i
 n Computational Models of Natural Language Use.Prof. Kees van DeemterDepar
 tment of Information and Computing SciencesUtrecht UniversityThe Netherlan
 dsModels of human language use are commonly evaluated in terms of their pe
 rformance\, for instance by means of computational metrics and/or judgemen
 ts by human judges. In this talk\, I will ask what additional criteria the
 re might be in terms of which such models should be evaluated. I will prop
 ose a set of criteria that emerge when we view Natural Language Processing
  as a scientific enterprise whose aim is to explain how speakers and heare
 rs use language\; these criteria include generality\, parsimony\, and supp
 ort from linguistic or other theories. To illustrate my proposal\, I will 
 focus on a research topic that has a long history in NLP and computational
  modelling\, namely Referring Expressions Generation (REG)\, comparing som
 e recent REG models in terms of the aforementioned criteria. I will conclu
 de by asking whether the same criteria apply to application-oriented NLP a
 s well\, and what it might mean for institutional policies if journal edit
 ors and conference organisers took my proposal onboard.K. van Deemter (202
 3) Dimensions of Explanatory Value in NLP Models. Computational Linguistic
 s 49 (3). \n\nhttps://conferences.lu.lv/event/680/
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