Studying Language Processing in the Human Brain with Speech and Language Models

Zhang Chao, Thwaites Andrew, Wingfield Cai


Abstract
“Speech and language computational models have been instrumental in advancing Artificial In-telligence in recent years. However, it remains an open question whether the human brain isemploying similar approaches to these models. This tutorial aims to provide an accessible intro-duction to the extensive research on this topic, specifically focusing on studies that seek to es-tablish quantitative correlations between neuroimaging data from human subjects and the outputof language models or automatic speech recognition systems. The tutorial covers various aspectsof this research, including a brief overview of brain-computer interfaces and neuroscience, com-mon techniques for data processing and pattern analysis, and representative research examples. Finally, the tutorial addresses the main limitations and technical challenges encountered in thisfield, as well as the relationship between brain mechanism research and brain-inspired artificialintelligence.”
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2023.ccl-4.3
Volume:
Proceedings of the 22nd Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Tutorial Abstracts)
Month:
August
Year:
2023
Address:
Harbin, China
Editors:
Maosong Sun, Bing Qin, Xipeng Qiu, Jing Jiang, Xianpei Han
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CCL
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Chinese Information Processing Society of China
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Pages:
17–23
Language:
English
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Zhang Chao, Thwaites Andrew, and Wingfield Cai. 2023. Studying Language Processing in the Human Brain with Speech and Language Models. In Proceedings of the 22nd Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Tutorial Abstracts), pages 17–23, Harbin, China. Chinese Information Processing Society of China.
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