University of Technology Nuremberg

What Can Be Learned from Vagueness

Speakers disagree about where the boundaries of graded words such as "tall" lie, and the resulting vagueness is usually counted as a cost to the listener. We ask what the same disagreement offers a learner that reads only text and never sees the magnitudes the words describe. Whe...

Typicality in referent choice: what the description leaves open

A description built on a superordinate category term (an animal perched on a branch) does not pick out its members evenly: some come to mind more readily than others. This paper separates three conditions under which such a description meets two candidate referents differing in t...

Typicality in referent choice: what the description leaves open

A description built on a superordinate category term (an animal perched on a branch) does not pick out its members evenly: some come to mind more readily than others. This paper separates three conditions under which such a description meets two candidate referents differing in t...

Transforming Science with Large Language Models: A Survey on AI-assisted Scientific Discovery, Experimentation, Content Generation, and Evaluation

With the advent of large multimodal language models, science is now at a threshold of an AI-based technological transformation. An emerging ecosystem of models and tools aims to support researchers throughout the scientific lifecycle, including (1) searching for relevant literatu...