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octopus test: a standalone construct

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Natural language processing

a thought experiment used to argue that a system trained only on linguistic form cannot in principle learn meaning, which requires a link to the world.

In natural language processing, octopus test refers to a thought experiment used to argue that a system trained only on linguistic form cannot in principle learn meaning, which requires a link to the world. This meaning comes from Bender (2020) in Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.[1]

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References

  1. Bender, E. M., & Koller, A. (2020). Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.463

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