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"Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition and Science", D?sseldorf (Germany), 20-22 Aug 2007

Second Call for Papers
Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science

International Conference
D?sseldorf,  August 20-22, 2007
Heinrich-Heine University D?sseldorf
http://phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/fff/ctf/

Invited speakers:

Lawrence Barsalou
Vladimir Borschev
Xiang Chen
Charles Fillmore
Peter Gaerdenfors
Nicola Guarino
William McGregor
Barbara Partee
Norbert Paul
Jeff Pelletier
Friedemann Pulverm?ller
Peter Simons

The topic of the conference is the investigation of concept types (sortal,
 
relational, individual and functional concepts) and their respective 
relationships to frames (recursive attribute-value structures). The 
interdisciplinary conference combines approaches from linguistics, 
computational linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, philosophy of science
 
and the history of science.

General chair: Sebastian L?bner

Organization: Thomas Gamerschlag, Christian Horn, Albert Ortmann, Markus 
Werning, Stefanie Zaun

Scientific board: Heiner Fangerau, Hans Geisler, Christoph Kann, Jim 
Kilbury, Gerhard Schurz, Ede Zimmermann

Administration & contact: Anna Grabowski (ctf@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de)

The conference invites contributions to the following topics:

     * Semantics and logic of concept types, in particular of functional,
 
relational and individual nouns.
     * Typological characteristics of functional, relational and individual
 
nouns, including the typology of possession and definiteness.
     * Historical development of functional and relational nouns and their
 
grammatical integration.
     * Semantics, typology and evolution of stative dimensional verbs such
 
as cost, weigh, mean.
     * Automatic classification of noun types in natural language corpora.
     * Frames as meaning representations in compositional and 
decompositional semantics.
     * The evolution of meaning and the role of functional concepts and 
frames therein.
     * The structure of scientific ontologies, especially in medicine and
 
biology, and their relation to functional concepts and frames.
     * The development of central functional concepts such as "substance"
 
in the history of metaphysics.
     * Functional concepts and frames in scientific theory and practice, 
from a historical perspective, in particular in the history of medical 
science.
     * The relation of changes of scientific frames to paradigm shifts.
     * Potential neural correlates and neural net models of functional 
concepts and frames.
     * Formalization and computational modeling of functional concepts and
 
frames.

Abstract submissions of no more than 500 words are due by March 31, 2007.
 
Please use the online submission form at: 
http://phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/fff/ctf/

For further information please email to: ctf@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de.

The conference is sponsored by the DFG (German Research Foundation).