We invite submissions to a workshop to be held within the 25th \;International Conference of the Department of Linguistics of the \;Faculty of Letters.
\nCIDL25 Workshop: Do LLMs exhibit natural-language processing cognitive \;abilities?
\nQuestions we aim to explore within the ambit of these topics:
\n&bull\; Do LLMs have metalinguistic abilities (do they have the ability to \;generate analyses of language data/theoretical linguistic abilities of \;language samples so as to identify whether a sentence is syntactically \;ambiguous? How well do they handle linguistic recursion tasks? Can \;they identify what type of recursion a sentence contains (adjectival\, \;possessive\, PP&hellip\;)? Can they draw a syntactic tree for it and add more
layers of recursion?
&bull\; Do LLMs meet plausible criteria associated with linguistic \;metasemantic theories or mental metasemantic theories (cf. \;https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-024-04723-8)?
\n&bull\; What would it mean for a Large Language Model to understand or \;acquire a language? What would it mean for them to meaningfully use a \;language or words? Is understanding language or grasping the meaning \;of words based on an innate structure? Does that structure need to be \;biological? Do LLMs need sensory grounding for language understanding?
\n&bull\; Are LLMs outputs based on linguistic representations? Do LLMs have \;internal representations? What would that mean? What kind of \;representations would that mean? If they do\, then do they acquire \;them? Can connectionism account for it?
\n&bull\; Can LLMs actually tell us something about Universal Grammar? Are \;there alternative ways for acquiring language? Can LLMs learn new \;languages via identification of grammar rules within data patterns?
\nAbstracts should clearly state the research questions\, approach\, \;method\, data and (expected) results. They should not exceed 300 words \;(including examples\, excluding references) and should be sent to \;colocviu.lingvistica.2025@gmail.com.
Call deadline: September 25\, 2025. \;Notification of acceptance: October 1\, 2025.