29.811, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Philosophy of Language, Psycholing/Germany

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Subject: 29.811, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Philosophy of Language, Psycholing/Germany

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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:16:15
From: Hana Filip [filip at hhu.de]
Subject: Cognitive Structures: Linguistic, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives

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

Date: 12-Sep-2018 - 14-Sep-2018
Location: Duesseldorf, Germany 
Contact Person: Hana Filip
Meeting Email: filip at hhu.de, cost18 at phil.hhu.de
Web Site: http://cognitive-structures-cost18.phil.hhu.de 

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

Call Deadline: 01-May-2018 

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 (confirmed so far):

Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR)
Friederike Moltmann (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique)
Albert Newen (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Kjell Johan Sæbø (University of Oslo)
Luc Steels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

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. 


Call for Papers:

Submissions are welcome from any area within cognitive science, including
linguistics, computer science, philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence
and neuroscience. Accepted participants will be allotted 30 minutes to present
and 10 minutes to answer questions, and invited to submit their papers for the
conference proceedings.

Submission Details:

Abstracts are due May 1, 2018, and should be submitted via EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cost18

Requirements:

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. Authors may be involved in at most two
abstracts and may be the sole author of at most one abstract.

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.

Submission Contact 
cost18 at phil.hhu.de

Important dates:

Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 May 2018
Notification of acceptance: 1 June 2018
Conference: 12-14 September 2018




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