2023
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-023-04435-5
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The ambiguity of BERTology: what do large language models represent?

Tommi Buder-Gröndahl

Abstract: The field of “BERTology” aims to locate linguistic representations in large language models (LLMs). These have commonly been interpreted as representing structural descriptions (SDs) familiar from theoretical linguistics, such as abstract phrase-structures. However, it is unclear how such claims should be interpreted in the first place. This paper identifies six possible readings of “linguistic representation” from philosophical and linguistic literature, concluding that none has a straight-forward application… Show more

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