Posted under: Events; Program; Social Events.
As ESSLLI participants, you are also members of FoLLI, the Association for Logic, Language and Information. Your are all welcome at the FoLLI General Meeting, where you’ll get information about the current state and future developments of the Association.
The meeting will commence with an informal reception with something to eat and drink. After, the evening lecture of Johan van Benthem will commence.
Place/time: Thursday, August 19, 18.45-19.30
Location: 23.0.50
Posted under: Program.
“Logic, Interaction and Collective Agency“, 11-12:30 will from Tuesday, August 17 moves to Auditorium 21.1.21
“Theories of Information, Dynamics and Interaction and their Application to Dialogue“, 11-12:30 will from Tuesday, August 17 move to Auditorium 21.1.47
“Logic, Rationality and Intelligent Interaction“, 14-15:30 will from Tuesday, August 17 move to Auditorium 21.1.21
“Game Theoretic Pragmatics“, 14-15:30 will from Tuesday, August 17 move to Auditorium 21.1.47
“Words and their Secrets“, 11-12:30 will from Tuesday, August 17 move to Auditorium 21.1.15
“Compositionality“, 11-12:30 will from Tuesday, August 17 move to Auditorium 22.0.11
Posted under: Program.
Larry Moss’ course on “Logics for Natural Language Inference” has been rescheduled for the 2nd week of ESSLLI, Monday, August 16-20, 14:00-15:30, Auditorium 21.0.19.
Posted under: Program.
The course on “Interactive Machine Translation and Human Translation Processes“, 17:00-18:30 has been moved to Auditorium 22.0.11. The course on “Empirically-Based Multi-Modal Studies“, 17:00-18:30 has been moved to Auditorium 27.0.09.
Posted under: Course Material.
The full papers presented at the student sessions are now available for download. Visit the student session website for links.
Posted under: ECTS Credits.
As of Thursday, August 12, 2010, students who have participated fully for the first week of courses and only is here for the first week may come to the registration desk and retrieve their ESSLLI 2010 Certificate worth 3 ECTS points.
Students who are here for the full two weeks may collect their ESSLLI 2010 Certificate 6 ECTS points starting Thursday, August 19, 2010 at the registration desk.
Posted under: Uncategorized.
Kulturhuset Islands Brygge — continue down Njalsgade to the waterfront, then Kulturhuset is on the left. Serves cheap-ish dishes.
Cavallino Pizzaria & Sandwich Bar — On Kongedybet 28, very close by. Serves nice Italian pizzas (50-60 kr.) and more. There are menus at the reception desk if you want to call down and order.
More Pizza: There are plenty of pizzarias around — this is a link to Google maps. Click “Search nearby” on the left and type in “pizza”. Some have websites with menus and numbers for pre-ordering.
Bagel House: There is also a bagel house a little up Amagerbrogade — see here.
Supermarkets: There are two supermarkets on Njalsgade, towards the water. The first from the site is SuperBrugsen, the second is Fakta, which is a bit cheaper. Both lie on the right hand side.
Posted under: Program.
The advanced course Logics for natural language inference to be held by Larry Moss has been postponed until further notice. At this point it is unsure whether the course may be held in week 2. to slot 3, week 2.
The course was to be held in week 1, 17.00-18.30. Other courses available in this period are:
LaCo:
Jong Sup Jun: Log-Linear Regression in Corpus Linguistics, introductory
Auditorium: 27.0.09
Patrick Juola: Authorship attribution and stylometry, introductory
Auditorium: 22.0.11
LoCo:
Olivier Gasquet and Andreas Herzig: Kripke’s World: an introduction to modal logics via tableau systems, foundational
Auditorium: 23.0.49
Dietrich Kuske: Automatic structures, advanced
Auditorium: 21.0.19
LoLa:
Olga Borik and Maarten Janssen: Formal Approaches to Thematic/ Semantic Roles, introductory
Auditorium: 21.1.21
Posted under: Social Events.
Close to the ESSLLI 2010 site lies a waterfront park called Islands Brygge. Here, there is a free outside habor bath, lawns for sunbathing and great ice cream for those warm lunch breaks.
We will have a meeting point near Kulturhuset on Islands Brygge. Here we will meet in when going to various social events, and one may choose to look for fellow ESSLLI participants close by.
Posted under: Events.
On Saturday the 14/8, 14.00, the traditional students vs. lectures soccer match will take place. We have booked an 11 person field at Kløvermarken, in the period 14.00-16.00. The teams will be made in an unformal fashion on site.
A walking party will depart from the social meeting point at Islands Brygge at 13.00 — when the boat sightseeing tour returns to the same location.
Posted under: Events; Social Events.
On Saturday 14/8 the official ESSLLI 2010 party will be held at “Mødestedet” — at staircase 17 of KUA.
The official party will run from 20.00-02.00. There is a bar with student friendly prices on site., and the entrance will of course be free. We hope all students and lectures will attend!
Posted under: Events.
The 2010 E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize has been awarded to Yury Savateev (Moscow State University) for his thesis ‘Algorithmic Complexity of Fragments of the Lambek Calculus’. The official announcement of the winner will take place at the Official Reception on Friday, August 13. In addition the laureate will give a presentation of his work on Thursday, August 19 in connection with the student session at 15.45 in room 23.0.49.
Posted under: Program.
Due to unforeseeable circumstances, the foundational LoLa course Psychological Reality of Semantic Theories to be held by Hans Kamp has been cancelled.
The course was to be held in week 1, from 9.00-10.30. Other courses available in this period are
LaCo:
Anna Feldman and Jirka Hana: Resource-light Morpho-syntactic Analysis of Highly Inflected Languages, foundational
Auditorium: 27.0.09
Remi van Trijp and Martin Loetzsch: Evolutionary Linguistics, introductory
Auditorium: 22.0.11
LoCo:
Mohammadreza Mousavi and Michel Reniers: Structured Operational Semantics, introductory
Auditorium: 23.0.49
Wojtek Jamroga and Wojtek Penczek: Specification and Verification of Multi-Agent Systems, advanced
Auditorium: 21.0.19
LoLa:
Fritz Hamm and Yiannis Moschovakis: Sense and denotation as algorithm and value, advanced
Auditorium: 21.1.15
Posted under: Uncategorized.
Dear ESSLLI 2010 participants,
Hopefully you have all arranged your transport to Copenhagen by now and are getting ready to depart. Before you do so, we, the ESSLLI 2010 Organization Committee have a few pieces of relevant information.
When you get here: We have compiled a short text on getting from the airport to Hotel Astoria and DanHostel Copenhagen City with maps and guides to public transport. See http://esslli2010cph.info/wp-content/uploads/What-to-Do-when-You-Get-Here.pdf
Clothing: In Denmark, we can never eliminate the possibility of rain, so bringing an umbrella is not a bad idea. Hopefully we will have a sunny two weeks where short sleeves and shorts will be the most comfortable during the day, long sleeves and pants for the evenings. For daily weather reports for Copenhagen, see http://www.dmi.dk/dmi/index/danmark/byvejr_danmark.htm?by=1000.
Further, both DanHostel Copenhagen City and the ESSLLI 2010 site are located close to a free harbor bath with lawns for hanging out. If you wish to take a dive, bring swimsuits and towels! Further, there is the Students vs. Lectures soccer match and the ESSLLI party — both without particular dress-code.
A Social Approach: Various social events have been planned and for those interested, Copenhagen offers more. In order to coordinate with each other in an open forum, a Facebook group has been set up — see http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=295538205364&ref=ts
Course material and preparation: All course material is now available in one zipped archive here: http://phis.ruc.dk/ESSLLI2010_Course_Material.zip
If you have problems unpacking the file, or extract only 15, and not 32, files, try using 7-zip: http://www.7-zip.org/ .
No hardback version will be available, so print from home.
Further, some course maintain their own, external websites, so make sure that you check the updated course descriptions on the website. In particular, if you plan on attending either Painless NLP Programming with UIMA or Authership Attribution and Stylometry, you should pre-install the required software.
We look forward to seeing you all in Copenhagen!
The ESSLLI 2010 Organizing Committee
Posted under: Course Material.
All course material can now be downloaded in one zip-archive here: http://phis.ruc.dk/ESSLLI2010_Course_Material.zip
The archive includes 32 files. If you have a problem unpacking or find only 15 files in Windows, try using 7-zip.
Hardcopies of the materials will not be handed out on site, so please print for the relevant courses from home. Not all courses have material included, but maintain external websites. Please ensure that you check the course descriptions as well, as links and instructions may be found there.
Posted under: Events; Social Events.
Being a waterfront city, many of the older sites of Copenhagen lies near some waterfront, and through the inner city runs old canals. We have arranged two guided sightseeing tours through the habour and canals of Copenhagen, one Saturday 14 at 12.00 and Sunday 15 at 14.00. The guides will provide information on the main sights and the most interesting moments in Copenhagen history in English.
Cheap tickets (50 DKR ~ 6½ €) for the tours will be sold at the Registration and Information Desk at the ESSLLI 2010 site — cash DKR only! There are 150 tickets available for each trip.
We will meet at the social meeting point at Islands Brygge at 11.45 on Saturday and 13.45 on Sunday and walk the short distance to the boat.
Posted under: Course Material.
Painless NLP Programming with UIMA is a practical course. In order to attend the course, you need to bring your own laptop configured appropriately. This mini guide explains how to install the necessary software so you can start using UIMA and participate in the exercises from day one. It is ESSENTIAL that your laptop be configured correctly BEFORE the start of the course because there will be no time to set up individual laptops during the course. The installation instructions will provide you with all the necessary information to help you set up your environment. If you feel these instructions are not sufficient or if you are having any difficulties in setting up your laptop, please contact us by email ({jordi.atserias|bart.mellebeek}@barcelonamedia.org}) before the start of the course. Once the course has started, there will be no time to set up individual laptops.
Posted under: What to do when you get here.
The following document includes information for both lectures staying at Hotel Astoria and sudents staying at DanHostel Copenhagen City on getting from airport to accommodation and form accommodations to the ESSLLI 2010 site.
What to do when you get here.pdf
Posted under: Evening Lectures; Program.
Dov Gabbay (Kings College London, University of Luxembourg, and Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Title: Integrating Logic Reasoning and Network Reasoning
Date and Time: Tuesday, August 10: 19:00-21:00
Auditorium: 23.0.50
Shalom Lappin (King’s College London)
Title: The Richness of the Stimulus: Confessions of a Nascent Empiricist
Date and Time: Thursday, August 12. 19:00-21.00
Auditorium: 23.0.50
Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam and Stanford University)
Title: Logical Dynamics of Rational Agency
Date and Time: Thursday, August 19. 19:00-21.00
Auditorium: 23.0.50
Neil Jones (University of Copenhagen)
Title: Properties of a program’s runtime state space
Date and Time: Tuesday, August 17. 19:00-21:00
Auditorium: 23.0.50
Posted under: Locations and Maps.
The official address of ESSLLI 2010 is
ESSLLI 2010
Building 22
Humanities Campus
Emil Holms Kanal
DK2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
Registration and Meeting Area, ground floor of building 23
There is free wireless web-access on the ground floors of buildings 22-24 on the network entitled SC Guest
Google Maps
Campus Map
Posted under: Events; Formal Grammar 2010.
FG-2010 is the 15th conference on Formal Grammar, to be held in conjunction with ESSLLI 2010 during August 7-8. The conference will take place in Auditorium 21.1.15.
Previous Formal Grammar meetings were held in Barcelona (1995), Prague (1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997), Saarbruecken (1998), Utrecht (1999), Helsinki (2001), Trento (2002), Vienna (2003), Nancy (2004), Edinburgh (2005), Malaga (2006), Dublin (2007), Hamburg (2008) and Bordeaux (2009).
For more information, please visit the Formal Grammar 2010 website
Posted under: Events; Registration and Accommodations.
The Early Bird registration offer for participation at ESSLLI 2010 expires on June 1. After June 1, it will no longer be possible to register for the reduced registration fee.
The ESSLLI 2010 organization committee strongly encourages students and other participants to both register and book accommodation before June 1. A limited amount of rooms are still reserved at DanHostel Copenhagen City, but these rooms will soon be available to for booking by regular tourists coming to Copenhagen during the summer.
For more information, go to the registration and accommodation pages.
Posted under: For Workshop Participants; Registration and Accommodations.
ESSLLI 2010 workshop organizers, participants and invited speakers should refer to
http://esslli2010cph.info/?p=448 for information on accommodation.
Additionally, please note that participants and invited speakers at workshops are supposed to register (and pay a registration fee) at ESSLLI in order to participate in the workshop. We may subsequently, with an emphasis on MAY, may be able to provide some fee reimbursement for workshop invited speakers, but that will in the end depend on the number of registered participants at your workshop, so please do your best to attract wide participation.
For additional queries, please contact OC Chair, Vincent F. Hendricks @ esslli2010cph@gmail.com.
Posted under: Frequently Asked Questions and Answers.
Q: Will I be able to attain ECTS points for attending ESSLLI 2010?
A: Yes. The University of Copenhagen have agreed to award each full time student at ESSLLI 2010 3 ECTS credits a week. A full time student is defined by attending and preparing for courses and workshops in slots 1-4 of each day. The maximum number of ECTS credits for ESSLLI 2010 is 6 given full time participation in both weeks of courses.
Q: Is ESSLLI 2010 open to anyone?
A: Yes, anyone register. There is no selection procedure for participants and being a student is not a requirement, though there is a lower registration fee for student. For more information on registration, go to the registration page.
Q: Are students required to submit a paper in order to attend?
A: No. No paper submissions are required, only registration is. For more information on registration, go to the registration page.
Q: How many lectures a day do participants need to take?
A: None. All participants are free to attend any and all course of workshops available at ESSLLI 2010. During registration, you will be asked to indicate which courses and workshops you plan to attend. This is non-committal, but gives an indication for the organization committee of which courses requires larger rooms, etc.
Q: Is it possible to register for one week only and save money on the registration fee?
A: No. Only two week registration is possible, though participants are free to attend any and all intervals of ESSLLI 2010.
Q: The accommodation deadline has passed. Is it to late to book rooms at DanHostel Copenhagen City?
A: Maybe. A package deal was guaranteed availability until May 4, 2010. The rooms are now open to be booked by other tourists. We recommend contacting DanHostel as soon as possible regarding accommodation. Rooms at DanHostel Copenhagen City are both the closest and cheapest accommodation available. For more information, go to the accommodation page.
For any other further queries regarding registration, accommodation, etc. issues, please inquire from the organizers, on esslli2010cph@gmail.com.
Posted under: For Lectures; Registration and Accommodations.
Lecturers should not register through the ESSLLI 2010 website. Instead, please register directly with executive officer Tinna Kryger @ tkryger@ruc.dk. Be sure to state:
Name:
Affiliation:
Date of Birth:
Course:
Course week:
Date of Arrival:
Date of Departure:
The ESSLLI organization will reimburse lecturer travel expenses with a flat rate of 300 euros within Europe and 500 euros outside. Reimbursements are due after ESSLLI 2010 has been held. If there are 2 or more lecturers for a course, ESSLLI will ONLY reimburse 1 lecturer pertaining to travel expenses.
Free accommodations at one of the conference hotels – Hotel Centrum or Hotel Astoria – for lecturers is also provided by ESSLLI 2010 for one week (5 working days, either August 8-13, or August 15-20) and one lecturer only. If there are 2 or more lecturers for a course, ESSLLI will ONLY cover the hotel accommodations for 1 lecturer for one course week (5 working days). Additional room nights may be purchased at own expense. Lecturers giving a course at ESSLLI should contact executive officer Tinna Kryger @ tkryger@ruc.dk for booking of accommodations with “Lecturer Hotels ESSLLI 2010” in the subject entry.
Additional lecturers are eligible for reduced rates at one of the two conference hotels. Please refer to page http://esslli2010cph.info/?page_id=121 for information about reduced rates.
Posted under: Registration and Accommodations.
The deadline for booking accommodations with package deals at the ESSLLI summer school venue is May 3, 2010. Availability of rooms at Danhostel Copenhagen City cannot be guaranteed after this date. Please visit website for more:
http://esslli2010cph.info/?page_id=121
Posted under: Travel Grants.
NOTE!!!
THE APPLICATANTS WHO HAVE RECEIVED AN ESF-TRAVEL GRANT HAVE BEEN INDIVIDUALLY NOTIFIED ON MAY 25, 2010!
ESSLLI2010 have received a number of travel grants from the ESF – European Science Foundation. Each grant is for 500 euros. The regulations for being eligible for a travel grant according to the ESF reads:
The funding awarded should be used for travel and subsistence support for the active participation of European Early Career Researchers (see note 1) (i.e., researchers affiliated to European universities or research institutes in countries having agencies that are Member Organisations of the ESF; for a full list see: http://www.esf.org/about-us/80-member-organisations.html).
In order to be considered for such a grant please write ESSLLI 2010 Organization Chair, Vincent F. Hendricks @ esslli2010cph@gmail.com. Be sure to include all necessary contact details and student status and documentation that your institution is a Member Organisation of the ESF.
Be sure to include the following information in your application:
- First name:
- Last name:
- Status: PhD student since ….
- Affiliation:
- Email address:
- Mailing address:
- Phone number:
- Fax number:
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS MAY 15, 2010. NOTIFICATION DEADLINE IS MAY 25, 2010.
Posted under: Workshop Calls for Papers.
The deadline for submissions to the workshop on Dependence and Independence in Logic has been extended to April 25, 2010.
For more information on the workshop, please see http://esslli2010cph.info/?p=321
Posted under: Evening Lectures.
Neil Jones (University of Copenhagen)
Properties of a program’s runtime state space
It is well known that any interesting property of programs is in general undecidable (unsolvability of the halting problem; Rice’s theorem). Nonetheless, in practice it can be essential to obtain definite information about a program’s behavior: will it terminate on given inputs, will it never commit certain errors, will it run in polynomial time (in the input’s size), and many more properties. One way out of this dilemma is to consider non-Turing complete classes of programs. Another is to develop “one-sided” analyses, whose positive results are reliable, but which may answer “don’t know”.
Given a program P and an input, the computation by P on the input may finite or infinite; and there may be many computations, e.g., if P is nondeterministic. One analysis approach is to find correct descriptions of the set of all computational states that P may enter while running, and to discover properties of this set, and the relations among reachable states. In addition to soundness, a condition relevant to computer science is that the analyses should be automatable.
This evening lecture will overview a number of approaches to the problem; possible topics include relations between programs and finite model theory, complexity of read-only programs, termination analysis by the size-change and related methods, and analysis of program running times.
Slides are available at http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/neil/ESSLLI12August.pdf
Posted under: Evening Lectures.
Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam and Stanford University)
Logical Dynamics of Rational Agency
If logic is at heart about information-driven rational agency and intelligent interaction, what follows? Come, and find out.
Literature: J. van Benthem, 2010, “Logical Dynamics of Information and Interaction”, Cambridge University Press.
Posted under: Evening Lectures.
Shalom Lappin (King’s College London)
The Richness of the Stimulus: Confessions of a Nascent Empiricist
The view that language acquisition requires a special purpose learning mechanism encoded as a Universal Grammar depends heavily on arguments to the effect that the primary linguistic data for acquisition is too impoverished to allow for efficient language acquisition through domain general learning procedures. A careful consideration of the evidence for different versions of this argument from the poverty of the stimulus shows that it does not sustain its main conclusions. Recent work on grammar induction, coming from a variety of fields, supports the view that efficient learning with domain general inductive methods, informed by comparatively weak language specific constraints, is possible. This talk is based on research presented in my co-authored monograph Alexander Clark and Shalom Lappin (2010), Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus, Wiley Blackwell, Oxford and Malden, MA.
Posted under: Evening Lectures.
Dov Gabbay (Kings College London, University of Luxembourg, and Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Title: Integrating Logic Reasoning and Network Reasoning
Abstract:
In the past half century various formal tools have been proposed for the study of human behaviour in daily life. Such tools were developed in computer science, communication, artificial intelligence, language study, law, analytic philosophy, psychology and cognition, among others. Main among these tools are the formal logical systems (classical logic, non-monotonic logics, modal and temporal logics, etc, etc.) and various network models such as argumentation networks, neural networks, Bayesian networks, inheritance networks, and more. There is no unifying view for all these tools, and in fact they are developed by completely different international communities with very little common ground and communication and yet (see below) all of these features of human behavior (logics and networks) do reside coherently in the individual human mind and enable him to function intelligently in his day-to-day activity.
There is some realization among a few of these diverse communities that communication between them needs to take place and unifying principles are indeed sought. Unfortunately not much is known and certainly no coherent and successful unifying view exists. The mission of this lecture to provide such a view. The value of a unified model goes beyond just a unifying formal theory. Even if we take the view that each of these components model a different aspect of the human (constructed as a model for the purpose of installing on a computer or a robot) a unified theory can help extend their range of applicability and help integrate them better. But we hope for more. We hope that such a model built up carefully might give us a better insight on how people actually reason. Something of great interest to the philosopher, psychologist, linguist and cognitive scientist. A unified theory would be a better, sharper tool in their hands.
Posted under: Poster; Program.
The official poster for ESSLLI 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 9-20, 2010 is now available here.
Posted under: Events; Proposal Deadlines.
Please note that the deadline for submissions for the eSSLLI 2010 Student Session has been extended to March 3rd, 2010.
For more information, please visit the Student Session website.
Posted under: Course and Workshop Descriptions.
Descriptions of the courses and workshops accepted for ESSLLI 2010 are now online.
These descriptions are listed below and under the menu point Course and Workshop Descriptions on the left, or browsed by the categories Language and Computation, Logic and Computation, Logic and Language and Other.
From the menu above, the Program button will take you to the program schedule, and from here each course and workshop is available.
Posted under: Course and Workshop Descriptions; Logic and Language.
The phenomenon of intonational focus is illustrated by the difference in truth conditions between “He only introduced BILL to Sue” and “He only introduced Bill to SUE”, and by phrases with inherent contrastive potential such as “in MY opinion” and “it’s a SMALL town”. Here capitalization indicates a prominence that is marked by phonetic factors including pitch contour and duration. The course introduces phenomena and theories of focus at the levels of phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and the interfaces between them. Common grammatical and contextual environments that trigger focus are surveyed. We will look in detail at the most prominent accounts of the semantics of focus, namely alternative semantics and entailment semantics, and consider how they are applied in particular cases. An important issue is the character of the phonology-semantics interface: focus plainly involves a correlation between phonetic-phonological features and semantic-pragmatic ones. Additional topics include issues of grammatical representation including scope; interactions with ellipsis and bound variables; focus in the pragmatics of the question-answer relation; the hypothesis that focus and question phrases have a single compositional semantics; focus intonation in Japanese question phrases; experimental and corpus methodologies; the semantics and pragmatics of topic accents. The course aims to cover the basics together with exciting current issues, without assuming background in linguistics.
Posted under: Course and Workshop Descriptions; Language and Computation.
This course introduces the students to Evolutionary Linguistics, a field that uses a systematic methodology for investigating the evolution of linguistic phenomena. This involves the following steps:
(a) Identify and reverse-engineer a specific language system;
(b) Identify its function in communication;
(c) Identify the language strategy that is needed for learning, expanding and aligning such a system;
(d) Understand how this language strategy may have originated;
(e) Show the selective advantage of the strategy.
At each step, computational models and robotic experiments are carried out to ensure that a proposed theory works. The goal of this course is to provide students with a clear insight into each aspect of the methodology and what skills are required to join this exciting field. The tentative schedule of the course is as follows:
1. Day 1 – “What is Evolutionary Linguistics”: The first lecture introduces the main research objectives of Evolutionary Linguistics and offers an overview of the proposed methodology. The theoretical framework is illustrated through the domain of colour.
2. Day 2 – “Embodiment”: This lecture talks about the challenges of embodiment in this research, including video demonstrations of robots that engage in communicative interactions in a real-world setting.
3. Day 3 – “Concept and lexicon formation”: This lecture shows experiments on the self-organization of vocabularies in speech populations. These experiments show how embodied agents create conceptual distinctions and exploit language for sharing these distinctions.
4. Day 4 – “Conceptualization”: This session deals with complex conceptualizations through the domains of spatial language and posture verbs. The class introduces the students to IRL, a computational tool for doing experiments on Incremental Compositional Semantics.
5. Day 5 – “Grammar”: The final session illustrates how to implement experiments on the evolution of grammar. Here, the domain of event structure is chosen. The students are introduced to Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG), a grammatical formalism that was especially designed for experiments on Evolutionary Linguistics.
Further particulars (e.g, prerequisites):
Students who bring their own laptops can freely install all software that will be used in the sessions so they can follow the demonstrations or even try some exercises themselves.
FURTHER REFERENCES
Introduction
Embodiment and language games
- Martin Loetzsch and Michael Spranger. Why robots? In A. D. Smith, M. Shouwstra, B. de Boer, and K. Smith, editors, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG 8), pages 222-229, 2010. World Scientific.
- Luc Steels (2001). Language games for autonomous robots. IEEE Intelligent systems, 16(5):16-22 October.
Concept and word formation
- Luc Steels (1996). A self-organizing spatial vocabulary. Artificial Life Journal, 2(3):319-332.
- Luc Steels (1997). Constructing and Sharing Perceptual Distinctions. In van Someren, M. and Widmer, G., editor, Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Machine Learning, pages 4-13, Berlin, Springer-Verlag.
- Pieter Wellens, Martin Loetzsch and Luc Steels (2008). Flexible word meaning in embodied agents. Connection Science, 20:2, p. 173-191.
Conceptualization
Grammar
- Luc Steels (2000). The Emergence of Grammar in Communicating Autonomous Robotic Agents. In Horn, W., editor, ECAI 2000: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Life, pages 764-769, Amsterdam, August 2000. IOS Publishing.
- Luc Steels (2004). Constructivist development of grounded construction grammars.. In Daelemans, W., editor, Proceedings Annual Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Luc Steels and Pieter Wellens (2006). How Grammar Emerges to Dampen Combinatorial Search in Parsing. In Vogt, P., Sugita, Y., Tuci, E. and Nehaniv, C., editor, Symbol Grounding and Beyond: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Commun, LNAI 4211 , pages 76-88, Berlin, Springer-Verlag.
- Remi van Trijp (2010). Strategy Competition in the Evolution of Pronouns: A Case-Study of Spanish Leísmo, Laísmo and Loísmo. n Smith, A.D.M. and Schouwstra, M. and de Boer, B. and Smith, K., editor, The Evolution of Language (EVOLANG 8), pages 336-343, Singapore, 2010. World Scientific.
- Remi van Trijp (in press). Grammaticalization and semantic maps: evidence from artificial language evolution. Linguistic discovery.
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