22.4023, Calls: Cog Sci, Psycholing/ Language and Cognitive Processes (Jrnl)

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Subject: 22.4023, Calls: Cog Sci, Psycholing/ Language and Cognitive Processes (Jrnl)

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Date: 14-Oct-2011
From: Albert Gatt [albert.gatt at um.edu.mt]
Subject: Language and Cognitive Processes


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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:02:01
From: Albert Gatt [albert.gatt at um.edu.mt]
Subject: Language and Cognitive Processes

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Full Title: Language and Cognitive Processes 


Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2012 

Special issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

Production of Referring Expressions: Models and Empirical Data

We invite substantial, original, and unpublished submissions for a special 
issue of Language and Cognitive Processes on psychologically informed 
modelling of reference production and experimental work that tests these 
models. Contributions may focus on computational, experimental, or 
theoretical approaches to reference. Papers should not exceed 10,000 words 
(but may be substantially shorter).

Editors for this special issue are Roger van Gompel (University of Dundee), 
Emiel Krahmer (Tilburg University), Albert Gatt (University of Malta), and 
Kees van Deemter (University of Aberdeen). Questions can be addressed to 
r.p.g.vangompel at dundee.ac.uk

Following on the CogSci workshop on the same theme (the PRE-CogSci 2011 
workshop, http://pre2011.uvt.nl/) we are pleased to launch this open Call for 
Papers for Language and Cognitive Processes. Participants at the PRE-
CogSci workshop are invited to submit, but this call is in no way restricted to 
them. Submission procedures are specified below.

Language and Cognitive Processes provides an international forum for 
theoretical and experimental research into the mental processes and 
representations involved in language use. Apart from research in 
experimental and developmental psychology, it publishes work derived from 
linguistics, philosophy, cognitive neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience 
and computational modelling.

One of the most important aspects of communication is the ability to refer. 
Despite several psycholinguistic studies investigating, we lack precise, 
psychologically plausible, quantitative models of how people produce referring 
expressions. The plausibility of existing computational models (as developed, 
for instance, in computational linguistics) is still a matter of debate. This 
special LCP issue aims to bring together research  on psychologically 
informed modelling of reference production and experimental work that 
directly tests them.

Possible topics for this issue include:
- Reference production in general models of cognitive architecture
- Computational reference production algorithms as models of human 
reference production
- Contextual factors in reference production
- Selecting the semantic/conceptual content of referring expressions
- Realization of referring expressions: word order, prosody
- Reference production in interactive settings, audience design, common 
ground and alignment
- Choice of different types of referring expressions (e.g., pronouns and 
descriptions)
- Acquisition of reference
- Complex reference (e.g., plural, quantified, vague/imprecise referring 
expressions)
- indefinite noun phrases
- gestures and reference
- visual scene perception and its influence on the production of referring 
expressions
- social factors in reference
- experimental evaluation methods

Papers should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/plcp. 
Authors should select 'Production of referring expressions' for 'Manuscript 
Type' and one of the special issue editors as the preferred editor from the 
pull-down list in part 1. 

At part 5 ('Details and Comments') they should tick the 'yes' box to the 
question 'is the manuscript a candidate for a special issue?' and write 
'Production of referring expressions: Models and empirical data' in the 
associated free text box. 

LCP instructions for paper formatting at 
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/plcpauth.asp should be consulted 
before completing the online submission.

Submission deadline is 1 March 2012





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