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<div>Dear Colleagues,<br>
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The theme of the 2003 UQaM Summer Institute is CATEGORIZATION. It is
open to all. For more information, please go to:<br>
http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/program.html<br>
Universite of Quebec @ Montreal: June 30 - July 11
2003<br>
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Day 1. CATEGORIZATION IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES<br>
(all disciplines)<br>
Categorization in cognitive neuroscience - S
Grossberg (Boston U)<br>
Categorization in psychology - S Harnad (UQaM)<br>
Categorization in computer science - JF Sowa
(LLC)<br>
Categorization in linguistics - TBA<br>
Categorization in Philosophy - TBA<br>
Categorization in cognitive sciences - A Papafragou
(Penn)<br>
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Day 2. SEMANTIC CATEGORIES<br>
(anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology)<br>
Emotion categories across languages - J Boster (U
Conn)<br>
Semantic categorization - B Gillon (McGill)<br>
Conceptual Change - P Thagard (Waterloo)<br>
Biology of substance categories - R Millikan(U
Conn)<br>
Color categories across languages - P Kay
(Berkeley)<br>
Semantic categories - S Coulson (UCSD)<br>
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Day 3. SYNTACTIC CATEGORIES AND CATEGORY CHANGE<br>
(linguistics)<br>
Syntactic categories 1 - A Zwicky (Stanford)<br>
Multifunctional categories - Lisa Travis
(McGill)<br>
Crossgcategorial constructions - R Malouf
(Groningen)<br>
Category change - Ian Roberts (Cambridge)<br>
How different can languages be? - D Gil (MPI
Leipzig)<br>
Syntactic categories 2 - J Bobaljik (McGill)<br>
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Day 4. CATEGORIES IN SPOKEN AND SIGNED LANGUAGES<br>
(linguistics and psychology)<br>
Sign Language 1 - D Bouchard/C Dubuisson
(UQaM)<br>
Sign languages 2 - Judy Kegl (U So Maine)<br>
Sign vs speech - D Lillo-Martin (U Conn)<br>
ACQUISITION OF CATEGORIES<br>
L1 acquisition - M Labelle (UQaM)<br>
L2 acquisition - L White (McGill)<br>
Categorisation and acquisition - E Clark
(Stanford)<br>
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Day 5. DATA MINING FOR CATEGORIES AND ONTOLOGIES<br>
(computer science, philosophy)<br>
Graph structure clustering - G Mineau (Laval)<br>
Data mining - Y Kodratoff (Paris-Sud XI)<br>
Text mining - A Napoli (LORIA)<br>
Computer-aided categorization - J-G Meunier
(UQaM)<br>
Categorization nets - R Proulx (UQaM)<br>
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Day 6. NEUROSCIENCE OF CATEGORIZATION AND CATEGORY LEARNING<br>
(psychology, philosophy)<br>
Neuropsychology of category learning - FG Ashby
(Santa Barbara)<br>
Striatum and category learning - WT Maddox (UT
Austin)<br>
Brain basis of category learning - J Gabrieli
(Stanford)<br>
Categorical speech perception/production - S
Ravizza (Berkeley)<br>
Neural nets - Pierre Poirier (UQaM)<br>
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Day 7. MACHINE CATEGORY LEARNING<br>
(computer science, philosophy, robotics)<br>
Conceptual spaces - P Gardenfors (Lund)<br>
Symbolic learning - Patrick Gallinari (U PM
Curie)<br>
Similarity in fuzzy categories - D Dubois/H Prade
(U P Sabatier)<br>
Self-organizing vocabularies - S Nolfi (ICST
Rome)<br>
Inferential learning theory - RS Michalski (G Mason
U)<br>
Cognitive computation - SJ Hanson (Rutgers)<br>
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Day 8. PERCEPTION AND INFERENCE<br>
(psychology, philosophy)<br>
Perception to symbols - L Barsalou (Emory)<br>
Return of conceptual empiricism - J Prinz (Wash U
St-Louis)<br>
Category representation - R Nosofsky (Indiana)<br>
Category learning - R Goldstone (Indiana)<br>
Categorization and inference - A Markman (UT
Austin)<br>
Perception and inference - S Coulson (UCSD)<br>
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Day 9. GROUNDING, RECOGNITION, AND REASONING<br>
(psychology, philosophy)<br>
Reference - S Larochelle (U Montreal)<br>
Shape recognition - I Biederman (USC)<br>
Object perception - PG Schyns (Glasgow)<br>
Analogical reasoning - D Gentner (Northwestern)<br>
Categorization and reasoning - S Robert (UQaM)<br>
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Day 10. THE NATURALIZATION OF CATEGORIES<br>
(philosophy)<br>
Nominalism and concepts - C Panaccio (UQTR)<br>
Social construction of categories - L Faucher
(UQaM)<br>
Concept nativism - E Margolis (Rice)<br>
Category neurosemantics - C Eliasmith
(Waterloo)<br>
Philosophical Analysis - G Rey (Maryland)<br>
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Registration information:<br>
http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/registration.html</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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<div>Henri Cohen</div>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000"><b>Henri Cohen,
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">Cognitive neuroscience
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