Categorization Summer Institute June 30 - July 11 2003 Montreal

The theme of the 2003 UQaM Summer Institute is CATEGORISATION 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