[robocup-worldwide] INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON EMBODIED LANGUAGE GAMES AND CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR

Hans-Dieter Burkhard hdb at informatik.hu-berlin.de
Thu Apr 2 11:21:38 EDT 2009


This school announcement below looks interesting for
ambitious RoboCup poeple because of its interdisciplinary
aspects. And also for the use of robots (like AIBOS
and humanoids) in the language games. Actually, the
robot related project software was inherited by RoboCup
(German Team and AIBOTeam Humboldt.

Hans-Dieter Burkhard

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Announcement for the

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON EMBODIED LANGUAGE GAMES AND CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR

_http://www.alear.eu/events/cortona2009/Home.html
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Cortona, Italy

29 August - 4 September 2009
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Human natural languages are complex adaptive systems, forever emergent 
and adapting to the needs of their communities. This insight is 
currently revolutionizing many branches of linguistics and this summer 
school feels the pulse of these exciting developments.
It brings together typologists and historical linguists studying 
language variation and the emergence of new grammatical structure, 
evolutionary linguists modeling the origins and evolution of language, 
cognitive linguists investigating the cognitive foundations of language 
usage and learning, complex systems researchers using methods from 
statistical physics to study the semiotic dynamics of evolving 
languages, and computational linguists and AI researchers carrying out 
experiments to achieve open-ended communication with autonomous robots.
The summer school gives an overview of the state of the art in these 
various subfields and compares results obtained from formal research, 
computer simulations and robotic experiments with empirical observations 
how humans invent and share language-like communication systems. It 
features a series of lectures by top researchers in the field, ateliers 
and master classes providing opportunities for hands-on experience in 
setting up and analyzing language game experiments, and poster sessions 
where participants present their own work.


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====== MAIN SPEAKERS ======
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Jean-Christophe Baillie (ENSTA/GOSTAI Paris)
Nancy Chang (ICSI Berkeley)
Ewa Dabrowska (University of Sheffield)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp)
Holger Diessel (University of Jena)
Dan Everett (Illinois State University)
Chrisantha Fernando (University of Sussex)
Antoni Gomila (UIB, Palma)
Bernd Heine (University of Cologne)
Manfred Hild (Humboldt University)
Laura Janda (University of Tromso)
Christa König (University of Cologne)
Tania Kuteva (University of Duesseldorf)
Maarten Lemmens (University of Lille)
Max Lungarella (University of Zurich)
Georgio Metta (IIT Genoa)
Toshio Ohori (University of Tokyo)
Luc Steels (Sony CSL Paris and University of Brussels)
Anatol Stefanowitsch (University of Bremen)

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==== TUTORIAL SPEAKERS ====
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Andrea Baronchelli (UPC Barcelona)
Tony Belpaeme (University of Plymouth)
Benjamin Bergen (University of Hawaii)
Pascal Constanza (University of Brussels)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp)
Joachim De Beule (University of Brussels)
Joe Hilferty (University of Barcelona)
Javier Valenzuela (University of Murcia)
Remi van Trijp (Sony CSL Paris)


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===== WHO CAN ATTEND ======
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The school is open to all researchers with sufficient scientific and 
technical background to actively participate in the lectures and 
ateliers. The number of possible participants is limited and hence a 
selection procedure is necessary.
Acquaintance and mastery of symbolic programming, computational 
linguistics, and artificial intelligence techniques is the ideal 
background for the ateliers. Linguistic background is helpful for many 
lectures in the main school but not a prerequisite. Participants who do 
not have computational background are assumed to prepare themselves by 
prior study and for them the tutorial program preceding the school is 
obligatory. The tutorial program is strongly encouraged also for those 
who already have a computational background but are unfamiliar with 
language game experiments.


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== REGISTRATION ==
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Registration is now open until April 15, 2009.
Check the web page for application details:
_http://www.alear.eu/events/cortona2009/Home.html_


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