@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/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2024.teachingnlp-1.18/",
    pages = "128--129",
    abstract = "We discuss the teaching of the controversy surrounding Bender and Koller`s prominent 2020 paper, {\textquotedblleft}Climbing toward NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data{\textquotedblright} (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."
}