Full Title: Cognitive Structures: Linguistic, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
Short Title: Cognitive Structures
Date: September 15–17, 2016
Location: Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany.
Meeting Email: cognitive-structures@phil.hhu.de
Web Site: http://cognitive-structures.phil.hhu.de
Field(s): General and Computational Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology, Cognitive Science
Extended Deadline: May 1, 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.
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.
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.
Invited Speakers
Lawrence Barsalou (University of Glasgow)
Verity Brown (University of St Andrews)
UMass alumnus Robin Cooper (Gothenburg University)
Igor Douven (CNRS and Paris-Sorbonne University)
Adele Goldberg (Princeton University)
Manfred Krifka (Humboldt University and ZAS Berlin)
UMass alumnus Marcin Morzycki (Michigan State University)
Francois Recanati (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)
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@phil.hhu.de
Important datesExtended Deadline: May 1, 2016Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2016 Conference: September 15–17, 2016
