27.1771, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Phil of Lang, Psycholing/Germany

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Subject: 27.1771, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Phil of Lang, Psycholing/Germany

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 10:20:54
From: Hana Filip [hana.filip at gmail.com]
Subject: Cognitive Structures: Linguistic, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives

Full Title: Cognitive Structures: Linguistic, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives 

Date: 15-Sep-2016 - 17-Sep-2016
Location: Duesseldorf, Germany 
Contact Person: Conference Organizer
Meeting Email: cognitive-structures at phil.hhu.de
Web Site: http://cognitive-structures.phil.hhu.de 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-May-2016 

Meeting Description:

The DFG Collaborative Research Centre 991: The Structure of Representations in
Language, Cognition, and Science (Düsseldorf, Germany) invites abstracts for
its biannual conference that aims to cover a broad range of research on
language and cognition. 

We are especially interested in theoretical, empirical and experimental work
exploring the nature of mental representations that support natural language
production/understanding, other manifestations of cognition as well as general
reasoning about the world. One fundamental question raised in this general
topic area is whether the requisite knowledge structures can be adequately
modeled by means of a uniform representational format, and if so, what exactly
is its nature.

Invited Speakers:

Lawrence Barsalou (University of Glasgow)
Verity Brown (University of St Andrews)
Robin Cooper (Gothenburg University)
Igor Douven (CNRS and Paris-Sorbonne University)
Adele Goldberg (Princeton University)
Manfred Krifka (Humboldt University and ZAS Berlin)
Marcin Morzycki (Michigan State University)
Francois Recanati (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)

Final Call for Papers:

Extended Deadline For Submitting Abstracts: 1 May 2016

Submissions are welcome from any area within cognitive science, including
linguistics, computer science, philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence
and neuroscience. Accepted participants will be allotted 25 minutes to present
and 10 minutes to answer questions. Accepted participants will be invited to
submit their papers for the conference proceedings.

Topics addressed may include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Frames, which have had a strong impact on the exploration of knowledge
representations in artificial intelligence, psychology and linguistics: e.g.,
formal theories of frames (including their modeling by means of DAGs, AVMs),
frame semantics and constructions, frame induction, linking frame semantics to
truth conditional semantics

- Concepts and categorization: formation/acquisition of concepts, concept
types and shifts, grounding of concepts, prototypes, concept empiricism,
conceptual spaces and similarity of concepts, statistical concepts

- Experimental investigation of mental representation

- Semantic interpretation and mental representation: the syntax/semantics
interface, compositionality, lexical semantic decomposition, (dynamic)
representation of aspect and tense, temporal sequencing in discourse 

Guidelines for Submission:

Abstracts must be anonymous, in PDF format, maximally 800 words, excluding
bibliographical references. Data should be incorporated into the main text of
the abstract, not on a separate page.

All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers.
Abstracts should not include the authors' names, and authors are asked to
avoid self-references.

Use the EasyChair platform for the submission of abstracts:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cost16

Submission Contact : cognitive-structures at phil.hhu.de

Important dates:

Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 May 2016
Notification of acceptance: 30 May 2016 
Conference: 15-17 September 2016

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