[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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