Bridging Neurons and Symbols for Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Graphs Reasoning

The workshop “Bridging Neurons and Symbols for Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Graphs Reasoning” is associated with LREC COLING 2024, in Torino (Italy) and Co-organized with partners from Text+. Recent exploration shows that LLMs may pass the Turing test in human-like chatting but have limited capability even for simple reasoning tasks. Human reasoning has been characterized as a dual-process phenomenon or as mechanisms of fast and slow thinking. These findings suggest two directions for exploring neural reasoning: starting from existing neural networks and starting from symbolic reasoning. These two directions will ideally meet somewhere in the middle and will lead to representations that can act as a bridge for novel neural computing and for novel symbolic computing. Hence the name of our workshop, with a focus on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Graph reasoning.

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