Making Text—Computational Language Generation

How does a machine generate text, rather than just analyze it? This session explores how language models work, from simple n-gram prediction to the transformer systems behind today's LLMs. You'll get hands-on time with a small, locally-hosted model and see what changes when one is trained on a specific collection. The goal is demystification: connecting text generation back to how text gets digitized, broken apart, and represented in the first place.