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Summer School CARLA: Concepts in Action

6-10 Aug 2018
Osnabrueck, Germany

Subject: Second CfP Summer School and Workshop ?Concepts in Action:
     Representation, Learning, and Application? (CARLA)

The Institute of Cognitive Science atOsnabrück University 
(https://cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de) is happy to announce the summer school 
?Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application? (CARLA), funded 
by the /Volkswagen Foundation/, and a subsequentinternational workshop on the 
same topic. Both the school participants and external researchers are invited 
to submit abstracts to the workshop for oral or poster presentations.

Thesummer school will bring together researchers from different disciplines 
with the goal of providing participants with knowledge about concept research 
outside of their own fields and to initiate interdisciplinary exchanges and 
research. The subsequent and co-located workshop provides an excellent 
opportunity to present and discuss ongoing research on concepts.

Both eventswill focus on (but not be restricted to)three core questions: How 
can we formally describe and model concepts? Where do concepts come from, and 
how are they acquired? How are concepts used in cognitive tasks?


_*I. CARLA Summer School: *_

  *

    Time and Venue:

      o

        August 06 to August 10, 2018, in Osnabrück (Germany).

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    Lecturers and Classes:

      o

        *Nicholas Asher *(https://www.irit.fr/~Nicholas.Asher/
        <https://www.irit.fr/%7ENicholas.Asher/>)and *Julie Hunter
        *(http://www.juliejhunter.com/): ?Concepts and
        Conceptualization: From the Lexicon to Situated Conversation?

      o

        *Christiane D. Fellbaum
        *(https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~fellbaum/
        <https://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Efellbaum/>): ?A Linguistic
        Perspective on Concepts?

      o

        *Peter Gärdenfors
        *(http://www.fil.lu.se/en/person/PeterGardenfors)*: *?Where Do
        Conceptual Domains Come From??

      o

        *Robert L. Goldstone
        *(http://psych.indiana.edu/faculty/rgoldsto.php): ?The Learning
        and Use of Concepts by Humans?

      o

        *Michael Spranger
        *(https://sites.google.com/view/michaelspranger/):
        ?Co-acquisition of Concepts and Language: Computational Models
        and Robot Experiments?

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    Schedule:

      o

        The schedule includes both lectures and interactive discussion
        sessions. Details can be found on our website:
        https://www.conceptuccino.uni-osnabrueck.de/carla_summer_school/preliminary_program.html)

  *

    Costs:

      o

        The school is fully funded and does not charge a registration
        fee. Meals are included in the funding and will be provided to
        the participants free of charge. The number of participants is
        limited to 25. If your institution is not able to cover your
        travel expenses, we can reimburse accommodation costs as well as
        travel costs up to 150 ? for participants from Germany, 350 ?
        for participants from non-German European countries, and 800 ?
        for participants from elsewhere.

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    Application:

      o

        We invite applications from PhD students and postdocs working on
        or being interested in concepts from a variety offields,
        including(but not restricted to) linguistics, philosophy,
        psychology, artificial intelligence, logic, computer science,
        and cognitive science. Highly interested advanced master
        students may be allowed in exceptional cases. We strongly
        encourage applications from individuals who are
        under-represented in their respective fields. For more
        information about the summer school, please visit our website
        (https://www.conceptuccino.uni-osnabrueck.de/carla_summer_school/overview.html).

      o

        If you are interested in participating, please submit your
        application *until April 30, 2018*under
        https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=carlass18. Your
        application should consist of a single pdf file including
        asingle-page CV anda short motivation letter of up to 300 words
        stating your research interests and why you want to attend the
        summer school. If youneeda visa to enter Germany, pleaseindicate
        this in yourapplication so that we can prepare invitation
        letters for you in time. If you need financial support for
        travel and accommodation expenses, please also indicate this in
        your application.We will notify you about the selection results
        by May 7, 2018. Should you have any questions, please contact us
        anytime atconcepts
        <mailto:concepts@uni-osnabrueck.de>@uni-osnabrueck.de
        <mailto:concepts@uni-osnabrueck.de>.


_*II. CARLA Workshop:*_

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    Time and Venue:

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        August 11 and August 12, 2018, in Osnabrück (Germany).

  *

    Invited Speakers:

      o

        Nicholas Asher, Christiane D. Fellbaum, Peter Gärdenfors, Robert
        L. Goldstone, Julie Hunter, Michael Spranger

  *

    Call for Papers:

      o

        "Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application"
        (CARLA) is an international workshop aimed at fostering
        interdisciplinary exchange about research on concepts. It
        invites contributions from all fields related to cognitive
        science, including (but not limited to) linguistics, artificial
        intelligence, psychology, philosophy, logic, and computer
        science. Although the workshop is open for research on any
        aspect of concepts, there exists a set of core topics that are
        of special interest:

              #

                /Representation/: How can we formally describe and model
                concepts?

              #

                /Learning/: Where do concepts come from and how are they
                acquired

              #

                /Application/: How are concepts used in cognitive tasks?

        We invite the submission of extended abstracts (up to 500 words
        excluding references) to
        https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=carlaws18 *until May 20,
        2018*. We will send out acceptance notifications by May 31, 2018.

  *

    Publication:

      o

        We plan to invite a selection of presentations for publication
        after the workshop.


Best regards,

The organizing committee (Lucas Bechberger, Ulf Krumnack, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, 
Mingya Liu)

-- 
Lucas Bechberger
Artificial Intelligence Research Group
Institute of Cognitive Science
Osnabrück University

Wachsbleiche 27, Room 50/310
D-49090 Osnabrück
Phone: +49-541-969-3400
E-Mail: lucas.bechberger@uni-osnabrueck.de
Homepage: https://www.lucas-bechberger.de

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