Categorization Summer Institute June 30 - July 11 2003

[Henri Cohen]

Dear Colleagues,

The theme of the 2003 UQaM Summer Institute is CATEGORIZATION. It is
open to all. For more information, please go to:
     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


Cheers,

Henri Cohen
--
Henri Cohen, Ph.D.
Cognitive neuroscience center
& Dept. Psychology, UQAM
PB 8888, Stn. Centre-Ville
Montreal, Qc.  H3C 3P8
Canada

T: (514) 987-4445      F: (514) 987-8952    I: henri.cohen at uqam.ca
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