A language model is a model that predicts the probability of a given text, that is all. It should not be conflated with other types of NLP tasks like part of sp

A language model is a model that predicts the probability of a given text, that is all. It should not be conflated with other types of NLP tasks like part of speech tagging. I'm guessing the popularity of transformer based models, which are built around the LM task and then adapted to other donations, is leading to this confusion.