David Strohmaier
@dstrohmaier.bsky.social
Philosopher and Computer Scientist at the University of Cambridge. My current research applies deep learning to lexical semantic acquisition. How do neural models learn the meaning of words? https://dstrohmaier.com
This weekend, I'm co-presenting a paper on transformers learning contrafactives, i.e. a kind of verb that doesn't exist. For those not attending the #BriGap workshop in Paris, I put together a brief blog post: dstrohmaier.com/Contrafactiv... #philosophy #AI #NLP #linguistics
Quite flattered by this generous assessment offered by Enoch Lambert in a recent book chapter: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Some #NLP & language education datasets on which our group worked are now available at researchdatasets.cambridge.org This includes the dictionary look-up data (see aclanthology.org/2025.conll-1.32/)
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New post on my upcoming #philosophy of #AI masterclass, collecting additional materials on the topic of meaning and LLMs: dstrohmaier.com/Upcoming-Mas...
Upcoming Masterclass on Philosophy of AI: Additional Materials » David Strohmaier
I’m offering a philosophy of AI masterclass, “Concepts in Machines”, at the University of Zürich later this month (April 23–25, 2026). In this post, I briefl...
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New blogpost! I put together notes on the Symbol Grounding Problem: dstrohmaier.com/Reflections-... #philosophyOfAI #NLP
Notes on the Symbol Grounding Problem » David Strohmaier
This post collects a set of notes on the Symbol Grounding Problem in the context of LLMs. In this context, the question is whether LLM systems have an approp...
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New post on the assumptions guiding our theories of learning and language acquisition: dstrohmaier.com/Assumptions-... #NLP #philosophy #linguistics
Post the first line of your book "We did not always want what we want today."
Jonathan Birch@birchlse.bsky.social · last yr.We all eventually fall from the edge of sentience.
Blog post on my two upcoming philosophy of AI talks: dstrohmaier.com/Two-Talks/ One talk will be heavy on #linguistics and #NLP, the other on social ontology. #AI #philosophy
Two Upcoming Talks on Philosophy and AI » David Strohmaier
I will give two talks about Philosophy and AI in the next few weeks (February 2025).
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The ELM3 papers are online, including a paper on contrafactives I've written with Simon Wimmer: journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/... #linguistics #philosophy
Vol. 3 (2025) | Experiments in Linguistic Meaning
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I'll speak at this event on AI and non-human entities at Heidelberg: philevents.org/event/show/1... #AI #philosophy #philosophyofai
Künstliche Intelligenz und nicht-menschliche Entitäten: auf der Suche nach Synergien aus unterschiedlichen philosophischen Debatten
Symposium „Künstliche Intelligenz und nicht-menschliche Entitäten: auf der Suche nach Synergien aus unterschiedlichen philosophischen Debatten“ Datum: 20.-22. Februar 2025Hinterg...
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Upcoming event at which I will talk about my research on how neural models contrafactives (with Simon Wimmer): philevents.org/event/show/1... #philosophy #NLP4philosophy
How we do (not) talk about mistaken beliefs
The lexica of natural languages abundantly feature morphologically simple predicates that denote attitudes by which people get things right, for instance factive predicates like know. Yet, as far as w...
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LLMs, Symbol Grounding, and other Problems -- Blog post on a recent EMNLP paper: dstrohmaier.com/SGP-Pragmati... #philosophy #AI #NLP
LLMs, Symbol Grounding, and other Problems » David Strohmaier
To my surprise, the recent 2024 EMNLP conference included multiple papers with a philosophical angle. One of them attracted my attention in particular: “Pra...
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