14.414, Confs: Categorization Summer Institute, Canada

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Date:  Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:06:13 +0000
From:  Cedergren.Henrietta at uqam.ca
Subject:  Categorization Summer Institute, Canada

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Date:  Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:06:13 +0000
From:  Cedergren.Henrietta at uqam.ca
Subject:  Categorization Summer Institute, Canada



Categorization Summer Institute

Location: Montreal, Canada
Date: 30-JUN-03 - 11-JUL-03

Web Site: http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/program.html
Contact Person: Organizing Committee
Meeting Email: cogsci at uqam.ca
Linguistic Subfield(s): General Linguistics

	
Meeting Description:
The theme of the 2003 UQaM Summer Institute is CATEGORISATION.
				
Programme/Program

30 juin 2003  La catégorisation dans les sciences cognitives (toutes les
	disciplines)
June 30th 2003  Categorization in cognitive sciences (all disciplines)

Categorization in cognitive neuroscience,  Stephen Grossberg, Boston University
Categorization in psychology, Steven Harnad, Université du Québec á Montréal
Categorization in cognitive computer science, John F. Sowa, VivoMind LLC
Categorization in linguistics, Pieter Muysken, Universiteit van Nijmegen
Categorization in philosophy, Georges Rey, University of Maryland

Discussant: On categorization in cognitive sciences,
Anna Papafragou, University of Pennsylvania

1er juillet 2003 Les catégories sémantiques (anthropologie, linguistique,
	 philosophie, psychologie)
July 1st 2003   Semantic categories (anthropology, linguistics, philosophy,
	  psychology)

Emotions categories across languages, Jim Boster, University of Connecticut
Semantic categorization, Brendan Gillon, McGill University
Reference, Serge Larochelle, Université de Montréal
Categorisation and conceptual change, Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo
A biological theory of empirical concepts, Ruth Millikan, University of Connecticut
Color categories across languages, Paul Kay, University of California at Berkeley

Discussant: On semantic categories,
Seana Coulson, University of California at San Diego

2 juillet 2003  Les catégories syntaxiques et le changement linguistique dans
les catégories (linguistique)
July 2nd 2003  Syntactic categories and category change (linguistics)

A state of the art on syntactic categories, Arnold Zwicky, Stanford University
Cross-categorial and multifunctional categories, Lisa Travis, McGill University
Cross-categorial constructions, Rob Malouf, San Diego State University
On category change,  Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge
How different can languages be? David Gil, Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

Discussant: On syntactic categories, Pieter Muysken, Universiteit van Nijmegen

3 juillet 2003 (linguistique et psychologie)
July 3rd 2003 (linguistics and psychology)

Les catégories dans les langues orales et les langues signées
Categories in spoken and signed languages

Syntactic categories in sign languages with particular reference to
LSQ, Denis Bouchard and Colette Dubuisson, Université du Québec à
Montréal
Syntactic categories in sign languages with particular reference to
ASL, Judy Kegl, University Southern Maine
Syntactic categories in signed versus spoken languages, Diane
Lillo-Martin, University of Connecticut
L'acquisition des catégories/Acquisition of categories
A state of the art on the acquisition of syntactic categories in L1,
 Marie Labelle, Université du Québec à Montréal
Syntactic categories in L2 acquisition, Lydia White, McGill University
On categorisation and acquisition, Eve Clark, Stanford University

4 juillet 2003  L'exploration de données appliquée aux catégories et à
l'ontologie (informatique cognitive, philosophie)
July 4th 2003  Data mining for categories and ontologies (cognitive computer
science, philosophy)

The clustering of graph structures, Guy Mineau, Université Laval
Text mining and analysis of scientific and technical information, Yves
Kodratoff, Université Paris-Sud XI
Knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) or data mining, Amedeo
Napoli, LORIA : Laboratoire lorrain de recherche en informatique et
ses applications
Computer-aided categorization, Jean-Guy Meunier, Université du
Québec à Montréal
Discussant: On data mining for categories and ontologies,
John F. Sowa, VivoMind LLC

7 juillet 2003  La catégorisation et l'acquisition des catégories vues par les
neurosciences (psychologie, philosophie)
July 7th 2003  Neuroscience of categorization and category learning
(psychology, philosophy)

Neuropsychology of category learning, FG. Ashby, University of
California at Santa Barbara
Striatum and category learning, WT. Maddox, University of Texas at
Austin
Brain basis of category learning, John Gabrieli, Stanford University
Brain damage and categorical speech perception and production, Susan
Ravizza, University of Pittsburgh
Neural network models of categorization: philosophical issues, Pierre
Poirier, Université du Québec à Montréal

Discussant: On neuroscience of categorization and category learning,
 Henri Cohen, Université du Québec à Montréal

8 juillet 2003  L'apprentissage automatique des catégories (informatique
cognitive, philosophie, robotique)
July 8th 2003  Machine category learning (cognitive computer science,
philosophy, robotics)

Categories and conceptual spaces, Peter Gardenfors, Lund University
Data analysis, learning symbolic and numeric knowledge, Patrick
Gallinari, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Similarity in fuzzy categories, Didier Dubois and Henri Prade,
Université Paul Sabatier
Self-organizing vocabularies, Stefano Nolfi, Institute of Cognitive
Sciences and Technology, Rome
Inferential theory of learning, natural induction, inductive databases
and knowledge scouts, Ryszard S. Michalski, George Mason University
Cognitive computation, Stephen Jose Hanson, Rutgers University


9 juillet 2003  La perception des catégories et l'inférence (psychologie,
philosophie
July 9th 2003  Categories in perception and inference (psychology,
philosophy)

Simulation and embodiment in situated conceptualization, Lawrence
Barsalou, Emory University
The return of conceptual empiricism, Jesse Prinz, Washington
University in St-Louis
Category representation, Rob Nosofsky, Indiana University
Category learning, Rob Goldstone, Indiana University
Categorization and inference, Arthur Markman, University of Texas at
Austin

Discussant: On categories in perception and inference,
Seana Coulson, University of California at San Diego

10 juillet 2003  Les bases, la récognition et le raisonnement dans le cadre de
la catéegorisation (psychologie, philosophie)
July 10th 2003  Grounding, recognition, and reasoning in categorization
(psychology, philosophy)

Neural networks and categorization, Robert Proulx, Université du
Québec à Montréal
Shape recognition, Irv Biederman, University of Southern California
Object perception, Phil G. Schyns, University of Glasgow
Analogical reasoning, Dedre Gentner, Northwestern University
Categorization and reasoning, Serge Robert, Université du
Québec à Montréal

Discussant: On grounding, recognition and reasoning in categorization,
Steven Harnad, Université du Québec à Montréal

11 juillet 2003  La naturalisation des catégories (philosophie)
July 11th 2003  The naturalization of categories (philosophy)

Nominalism and the theory of concepts, Claude Panaccio, Université du
Québec à Trois-Rivières
The social construction of categories, Luc Faucher, Université du
Québec à Montréal
Concept nativism, Eric Margolis, Rice University
A neurosemantic for categories, Chris Eliasmith, University of Waterloo
Philosophical Analysis as Cognitive Psychology, Elisabetta Lalumera,
Universitá di Bologna

Discussant: On the naturalization of categories, Jean-Guy Meunier,
Université du Québec à Montréal

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