NTU–LMU Joint Seed Funding for Shawn Stendefer and Levin Hornischer
11.02.2025
Levin Hornischer (MCMP) and Shawn Stendefer (National Taiwan University) have been awarded funding from the NTU-LMU Joint Seed Funding for the project "Synonomy in AI". The project will hold workshops in Taipei and Munich in 2025.
The project is about bridging two approaches to language. On the one hand, large language models like ChatGPT excel at finding statistical patterns in language. On the other hand, formal semantics excels at law-like symbolic descriptions of these patterns. Bridging these two traditions is promising for both sides. The project starts doing this for the central concept of synonymy.