LLMs and Factuality [ FJelinekSeries #59 ]

📅 14/04/2025 | 🗣 Anna Rogers (University of Copenhagen) | 📝 LLMs and Factuality


🔖 ABOUT THE LECTURE
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▸This lecture focuses on the workflows for using LLMs as information sources, the types of problems that may result from that, and the main current mitigation strategies (retrieval-augmented generation and chain-of-thought reasoning). Finally, I will discuss the problem of detecting generated texts, and the impact of LLMs on the information ecosphere and content economy.

📽️ ABOUT THE SERIES
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▸Within the regular Linguistic Mondays, special space is reserved approx. 4 times per academic year for talks given by leading specialists in the field of computational and formal linguistics and natural language processing. The invited speakers come from the most prominent research centers in Europe or outside this geographic region, and their involvemenet in the Series is also an opportunity for all interested participants for establishing contacts with the visiting professors and their teams. The Series is named after Professor Frederick Jelinek (18.11.1932 in former Czechoslovakia - 14.9.2010 in the USA), a honorary doctor of Charles University and a former prominent researcher at IBM Research Centre and Johns Hopkins University, who was a pioneering figure in the field of speech recognition and statistical methods in natural language processing, After the political changes in Czechoslovakia in 1989, professor F. Jelinek was regularly invited by our Institute to give courses and to supervise our students and his contribution to the development of the field of computational linguistics at Charles University is immense.

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