Occam’s Razor and Bender and Koller’s Octopus

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Abstract

We discuss the teaching of the discussion surrounding Bender and Koller’s prominent ACL 2020 paper, “Climbing toward NLU: on meaning form, and understanding in the age of data" (Bender and Koller, 2020). We present what we understand to be the main contentions of the paper, and then recommend that the students engage with the natural counter-arguments to the claims in the paper. We attach teaching materials that we use to facilitate teaching this topic to undergraduate students.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationTeachNLP 2024 - 6th Workshop on Teaching NLP, Proceedings of the Workshop
EditorsSana Al-azzawi, Laura Biester, Gyorgy Kovacs, Ana Marasovic, Leena Mathur, Margot Mieskes, Leonie Weissweiler
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages128-129
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9798891761346
StatePublished - 2024
Externally publishedYes
Event6th Workshop on Teaching Natural Language Processing, TeachNLP 2024 - Hybrid, Bangkok, Thailand
Duration: Aug 15 2024 → …

Publication series

NameTeachNLP 2024 - 6th Workshop on Teaching NLP, Proceedings of the Workshop

Conference

Conference6th Workshop on Teaching Natural Language Processing, TeachNLP 2024
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityHybrid, Bangkok
Period8/15/24 → …

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Software
  • Linguistics and Language

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