Saturday, December 11. Part A: Optimality in Language
Bidirectional vs. Unidirectional Optimization in adults & children
9:30-10:00
Coffee
10:00-10:30
PETRA HENDRIKS:
Online processing of bidirectional optimization
10:30-11:00
HENRIETTE DE SWART:
Telicity features of bare nominals
11:00-11:30
HENK ZEEVAT:
Parity and Automatic Self-Monitoring
11:30 - 12:00
Break
12:00-12:30
GERALDINE LEGENDRE & PAUL SMOLENSKY:
Modeling comprehension of personal pronouns: Bidirectional vs. Unidirectional Optimization in adults & children
12:30-13:00
PAUL SMOLENSKY:
Embedding OT grammars in neural networks: Discrete and gradient effects in production
13:00-14:30
Break
14:30-15:00
GERLOF BOUMA & RUBEN VAN DE VIJVER:
Pluralization in German: a challenge for frequency-based learning
15:00-15:30
LOTTE HOGEWEG:
Optimality Theoretic Lexical Semantics
15:30-16:00
MANFRED KRIFKA:
An optimality-theoretic treatment of the hedonic implicatures of 'taste' and 'smell'
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Sunday, December 12. Part B: Geometric Approaches to Cognition
9:30-10:00
Coffee
10:00-10:30
STEFAN EVERT:
Some mathematical insights into distributional semantic models
10:30-11:00
STEFAN KIEBEL:
A hierarchy of time-scales and the brain
11:00-11:30
PETER BEIM GRABEN:
Stable heteroclinic sequences as a paradigm for dynamic psycholinguistics
11:30-12:00
Break
12:00-12:30
HARALD ATMANNSPACHER:
The Necker-Zeno model
12:30-13:00
SONJA SMETS:
Dynamic conditionals as a unifying setting for information change: From quantum logic to dynamic belief revision
13:00-14:00
Break
14:00-14:30
REINHARD BLUTNER:
Geometric models of meaning and compositionality
14:30-15:00
STEFAN FRANK:
The dynamics of incremental sentence comprehension: A situation-space model
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Monday, December 13. Part B: Geometric Approaches to Cognition
9:30-10:00
Coffee
10:00-10:30
PETER GAERDENFORS & MASSIMO WARGLIEN:
Using conceptual spaces to model actions and events
10:30-11:00
ANTON BENZ & ALEXANDRA STREKALOVA:
Conceptual spaces for matching and representing preferences
11:00-11:30
Break
12:00-12:30
EDUARDO MIZRAJI:
Modeling the cognitive spatio-temporal operations using associative memories and multiplicative contexts
12:30-13:00
PAUL SMOLENSKY:
Embedding the discrete within the continuous: Processing implications of tensor product representations for linguistic production
13:00
Coffee
