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Dear colleagues,</div>
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On June 10th-12th we are organizing a workshop on <b><a href="https://ann-humlang.github.io/" id="OWA9b810823-96fd-a9d7-14ee-824ff805f268" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://ANN-HumLang.github.io/" style="margin: 0px;">Using Artificial Neural Networks for Studying
Human Language Learning and Processing</a></b> at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation in Amsterdam.</div>
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Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have proven to be powerful learning devices for language-related tasks, as demonstrated by recent progress in artificial intelligence driven by large, Transformer-based language models. But how can ANNs inform us about
<i>human</i> language learning and processing?</div>
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Our three-day workshop brings together researchers working on cognitively motivated and linguistic questions in studying the language processing mechanisms and learning trajectories of ANNs.</div>
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Arianna Bisazza (University of Groningen), Eva Portelance (McGill University, HEC Montréal), and Ethan Wilcox (ETH Zürich) will give keynote lectures providing insights on the relations between modern neural language models and studies of human language learning
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In addition, we have an exciting set of contributed presentations from our workshop participants on the first and second day of the programme. Our third day is dedicated to active interactions between on-site workshop participants, through tutorials and collaborative
tasks on the topic of learning trajectories in smaller- and larger-scale models.</div>
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The full schedule is available on our <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<a href="https://ann-humlang.github.io/#programme" id="OWAcc217b2a-97ee-f046-2283-80587b91314e" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://ANN-HumLang.github.io/#programme" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;">webpage</a></span> (timeslots
are in <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://time.is/CEST" id="OWA82747ecb-a859-90f5-a2ed-818858df3ad7" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://time.is/CEST" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;">CEST</a></span>),
and we are happy to welcome anyone interested in following along remotely for our programme on Monday and Tuesday. All items on the schedule with a camera icon will be streamed; if you are interested in receiving the link, please leave your e-mail address
in <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://forms.gle/ntAomXz2mYUMQXpY8" id="OWA3001f02f-200d-4fac-77f0-a03b31f7f68b" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://forms.gle/ntAomXz2mYUMQXpY8" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;">this
form</a></span> (also linked on our website).</div>
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All the best,</div>
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The organizing team</div>
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Tamar Johnson and Marianne de Heer Kloots</div>
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