Disentangling syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics in natural language processing

• Main Author: Zhang, Xulang
• Other Authors: Erik Cambria
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Computer and Information Science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177426
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In the era of deep learning, the natural language processing (NLP) community has become increasingly reliant on large language models (LLM), which are essentially probabilistic black-boxes. Hence, when applying them to downstream applications, we can only entrust that the LLMs has learned the variou...