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Translating from natural language into a language of thought

Speaker: Cathy Wong

Location: On-Line
Videoconference link: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MXQ2c2hpdHV1ajc1bGIxcjA3YTA5aDBvcGIgdGw4NzZAbnl1LmVkdQ&tmsrc=tl876%40nyu.edu

Date: Thursday, November 3, 2022

Human language offers a powerful window into our thoughts -- we tell stories and ask questions about uncertain situations, offer and ask for explanations, talk about the physical and visual world, and describe our beliefs, goals, and plans. Understanding human language, then, seems to require knowing how the meanings of sentences relate to our own detailed conceptual knowledge about the world, and the ability to reason flexibly over both.