@inproceedings{guerzhoy-2024-occams-razor,
    title = "Occam{'}s Razor and Bender and Koller{'}s Octopus",
    author = "Guerzhoy, Michael",
    editor = {Al-azzawi, Sana  and
      Biester, Laura  and
      Kov{\'a}cs, Gy{\"o}rgy  and
      Marasovi{\'c}, Ana  and
      Mathur, Leena  and
      Mieskes, Margot  and
      Weissweiler, Leonie},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Teaching NLP",
    month = aug,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2024.teachingnlp-1.18/",
    pages = "128--129",
    abstract = "We discuss the teaching of the controversy surrounding Bender and Koller{'}s prominent 2020 paper, ``Climbing toward NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data'' (ACL 2020)We present what we understand to be the main contentions of the paper, and then recommend that the students engage with the natural counter-arguments to the claims in the paper.We attach teaching materials that we use to facilitate teaching this topic to undergraduate students."
}