Human Language
Human language research aims to understand how humans process, produce, and learn language, focusing on both its cognitive and computational aspects. Current research heavily utilizes large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs), applying them to tasks like word sense disambiguation, cross-modal reasoning, and the analysis of language in diverse contexts such as online communities and medical images. These advancements are improving machine translation, text-to-speech synthesis, and other applications while also providing new tools for investigating fundamental questions about human cognition and language acquisition.
Papers
The taste of IPA: Towards open-vocabulary keyword spotting and forced alignment in any language
Jian Zhu, Changbing Yang, Farhan Samir, Jahurul Islam
Language and Sketching: An LLM-driven Interactive Multimodal Multitask Robot Navigation Framework
Weiqin Zu, Wenbin Song, Ruiqing Chen, Ze Guo, Fanglei Sun, Zheng Tian, Wei Pan, Jun Wang
Carpe Diem: On the Evaluation of World Knowledge in Lifelong Language Models
Yujin Kim, Jaehong Yoon, Seonghyeon Ye, Sangmin Bae, Namgyu Ho, Sung Ju Hwang, Se-young Yun
A Survey of Large Language Models in Medicine: Progress, Application, and Challenge
Hongjian Zhou, Fenglin Liu, Boyang Gu, Xinyu Zou, Jinfa Huang, Jinge Wu, Yiru Li, Sam S. Chen, Peilin Zhou, Junling Liu, Yining Hua, Chengfeng Mao, Chenyu You, Xian Wu, Yefeng Zheng, Lei Clifton, Zheng Li, Jiebo Luo, David A. Clifton
Large Human Language Models: A Need and the Challenges
Nikita Soni, H. Andrew Schwartz, João Sedoc, Niranjan Balasubramanian
Beyond Denouncing Hate: Strategies for Countering Implied Biases and Stereotypes in Language
Jimin Mun, Emily Allaway, Akhila Yerukola, Laura Vianna, Sarah-Jane Leslie, Maarten Sap
Grounding Visual Illusions in Language: Do Vision-Language Models Perceive Illusions Like Humans?
Yichi Zhang, Jiayi Pan, Yuchen Zhou, Rui Pan, Joyce Chai
Revising with a Backward Glance: Regressions and Skips during Reading as Cognitive Signals for Revision Policies in Incremental Processing
Brielen Madureira, Pelin Çelikkol, David Schlangen
SOUL: Towards Sentiment and Opinion Understanding of Language
Yue Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Sinno Jialin Pan, Lidong Bing