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SUMMARY:Assessing language-specific capabilities of LLMs: Lessons from Swe
 dish NLP - Felix Morger (University of Gothenburg)
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CONTACT:Suchir Salhan
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In this talk\, I discuss benchmarking and interpreti
 ng large language models in the context of Swedish. I present a selection 
 of work from my PhD thesis\, which analyze LLMs Swedish-specific capabilit
 ies in different areas: English-Swedish language transfer\, multi-task ben
 chmarking on Swedish NLU and targeted analysis of a specific case of Swedi
 sh linguistic variation. I outline some of the challenges that arise when 
 trying to assess the language-specific capabilities of LLMs\, some lessons
  I've learned throughout from my work and give a future outlook.\n\nBio: F
 elix Morger is a software engineer and computational linguist based in Got
 henburg\, Sweden. He recently defended his PhD thesis\, titled "In the min
 ds of stochastic parrots: Benchmarking\, evaluating and interpreting large
  language models". His main research interests are in benchmarking and mod
 el interpretability of large language models with a large focus on Swedish
 .\n
LOCATION:ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4
 751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.
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