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; Introduction to the Workshop 10:00am–10:10am; Opening remarks from Dr. Kaye Husbands Fealing, NSF Assistant Director for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate 10:10am–10:25am; Opening remarks and orientation from organizing team ; <strong>Topic 1: To what extent do large language models offer hypotheses about how human minds / brains produce (or comprehend) natural-language texts? (Chair: Mark, Discussion Moderator: Dan)</strong> 10:30am–11:15am; Wei Xu: How LLMs can help make knowledge accessible to all and how we can reduce biases? 11:15am–12:00pm; Leila Wehbe: Flexible approaches are needed to make language models into brain models 12:00pm–1:00pm; Break 1:00pm–1:45pm; Michael Ramscar: Language models in humans and computers ; <strong>Topic 2: What might happen in humans' minds as they dialogue / collaborate with large language models to perform language tasks? (Chair: Evgeny, Discussion Moderator: Phuong)</strong> 1:45pm–2:30pm; Morten Christiansen: Large Language Models, Creativity, and Textual Culture 2:30pm–3:15pm; Martin Pickering: Augmented language production 3:15pm–3:30pm; Closing Remarks

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10:00am–10:05am; Introduction to Day 2 ; <strong>Topic 2 (continued): What might happen in humans' minds as they dialogue / collaborate with large language models to perform language tasks? (Chair: Evgeny, Discussion Moderator: Phuong)</strong> 10:05am–10:50am; Kyle Mahowald: Studying How Language Models Produce Text by Manipulating What They are Trained On 10:50am–11:35am; Pablo Contreras Kallens: Getting aligned: Exploring the effect of feedback on LLMs 11:35am–12:15pm; Break ; <strong>Topic 3: What do we know about the efficacy (potential and observed) of LLM-based tools to human learning in language-intense domains (e.g., written composition instruction)? (Chair: Emily, Discussion Moderator: Kim) </strong> 12:15pm–1:00pm; Bill Cope, Patrick Bolger, and Mary Kalantzis: The Language of Generative AI: Theory and Practical Application 1:00pm–1:45pm; Alina Reznitskaya and Evgeny Chukharev: The Role of LLMs and Assessment Frameworks in Promoting Argumentation 1:45pm–2:00pm; Break 2:00pm–2:30pm; Public Closing Remarks from NSF Program Officers and Organizing Team 2:30pm–3:30pm; Discussion: Speakers and discussants are asked to bring a brief summary or reflection on the workshop to this meeting.