13.2928, Confs: Categorization Summer Institute

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Date:  Fri, 8 Nov 2002 23:13:05 +0000
From:  Stevan Harnad <harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject:  Categorization Summer Institute, Montreal Canada

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Date:  Fri, 8 Nov 2002 23:13:05 +0000
From:  Stevan Harnad <harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject:  Categorization Summer Institute, Montreal Canada


    The theme of the 2003 UQaM Summer Institute is CATEGORISATION
    http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/program.html
    Universite of Quebec @ Montreal: June 30 - July 11 2003

Day 1. CATEGORIZATION IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
(all disciplines)
    Categorization in cognitive neuroscience - S Grossberg (Boston U)
    Categorization in psychology - S Harnad (UQaM)
    Categorization in computer science - JF Sowa (LLC)
    Categorization in linguistics - TBA
    Categorization in Philosophy - TBA
    Categorization in cognitive sciences - A Papafragou (Penn)

Day 2. SEMANTIC CATEGORIES
(anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology)
    Emotion categories across languages - J Boster (U Conn)
    Semantic categorization - B Gillon (McGill)
    Conceptual Change - P Thagard (Waterloo)
    Biology of substance categories - R Millikan(U Conn)
    Color categories across languages - P Kay (Berkeley)
    Semantic categories - S Coulson (UCSD)

Day 3. SYNTACTIC CATEGORIES AND CATEGORY CHANGE
(linguistics)
    Syntactic categories 1 - A Zwicky (Stanford)
    Multifunctional categories - Lisa Travis (McGill)
    Crossgcategorial constructions - R Malouf (Groningen)
    Category change - Ian Roberts (Cambridge)
    How different can languages be? - D Gil (MPI Leipzig)
    Syntactic categories 2 - J Bobaljik (McGill)

Day 4. CATEGORIES IN SPOKEN AND SIGNED LANGUAGES
(linguistics and psychology)
    Sign Language 1  - D Bouchard/C Dubuisson (UQaM)
    Sign languages 2 - Judy Kegl (U So Maine)
    Sign vs speech - D Lillo-Martin (U Conn)
       ACQUISITION OF CATEGORIES
    L1 acquisition - M Labelle (UQaM)
    L2 acquisition - L White (McGill)
    Categorisation and acquisition - E Clark (Stanford)

Day 5. DATA MINING FOR CATEGORIES AND ONTOLOGIES
(computer science, philosophy)
    Graph structure clustering - G Mineau (Laval)
    Data mining - Y Kodratoff (Paris-Sud XI)
    Text mining - A Napoli (LORIA)
    Computer-aided categorization - J-G Meunier (UQaM)
    Categorization nets - R Proulx (UQaM)

Day 6. NEUROSCIENCE OF CATEGORIZATION AND CATEGORY LEARNING
(psychology, philosophy)
    Neuropsychology of category learning - FG Ashby (Santa Barbara)
    Striatum and category learning - WT Maddox (UT Austin)
    Brain basis of category learning - J Gabrieli (Stanford)
    Categorical speech perception/production - S Ravizza (Berkeley)
    Neural nets - Pierre Poirier (UQaM)

Day 7. MACHINE CATEGORY LEARNING
(computer science, philosophy, robotics)
    Conceptual spaces - P Gardenfors (Lund)
    Symbolic learning - Patrick Gallinari (U PM Curie)
    Similarity in fuzzy categories - D Dubois/H Prade (U P Sabatier)
    Self-organizing vocabularies - S Nolfi (ICST Rome)
    Inferential learning theory - RS Michalski (G Mason U)
    Cognitive computation - SJ Hanson (Rutgers)

Day 8. PERCEPTION AND INFERENCE
(psychology, philosophy)
    Perception to symbols - L Barsalou (Emory)
    Return of conceptual empiricism - J Prinz (Wash U St-Louis)
    Category representation - R Nosofsky (Indiana)
    Category learning - R Goldstone (Indiana)
    Categorization and inference - A  Markman (UT Austin)
    Perception and inference - S Coulson (UCSD)

Day 9. GROUNDING, RECOGNITION, AND REASONING
(psychology, philosophy)
    Reference - S Larochelle (U Montreal)
    Shape recognition - I Biederman (USC)
    Object perception - PG Schyns (Glasgow)
    Analogical reasoning - D Gentner (Northwestern)
    Categorization and reasoning - S Robert (UQaM)

Day 10. THE NATURALIZATION OF CATEGORIES
(philosophy)
    Nominalism and concepts - C Panaccio (UQTR)
    Social construction of categories - L Faucher (UQaM)
    Concept nativism - E Margolis (Rice)
    Category neurosemantics - C Eliasmith (Waterloo)
    Philosophical Analysis - G Rey (Maryland)

Registration information:
http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/registration.html

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