20-22 Apr 2015
Canterbury, England
Invitation to submit to:
*8th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy:*
*The Significance of Metaphor and Other Figurative Modes of Expression and
Thought*
*2015 Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial
Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB)*
20-22nd April 2015
University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Website for the Convention:
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/2015/AISB2015/index.html
Website for our Symposium:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~gargetad/AISB-CP-2015.html
*The Symposium will occupy up to two days at some point within the three
days of the Convention*
We invite proposals from potential presenters to take part in this
Symposium. Details about submissions are at the end of the description.
*Description:*
Communication and expression in language, pictures, diagrams, gesture,
music etc. is rich with figurative aspects, such as metaphor, metonymy,
hyperbole and irony. People engage in such communication and expression in
a variety of contexts and with a range of effects. Modelling figurative
patterns of communication/expression is a key aim of academic disciplines
such as linguistics, philosophy, discourse studies, and psycholinguistics,
and automatically understanding such phenomena is a long-standing and now
expanding endeavour within Artificial Intelligence. A particularly
interesting current area of research is work on automatically generating as
well as understanding metaphor -- both understanding and generation are
emerging as important sites for
addressing long-standing problems in linguistics, artificial intelligence,
philosophy, and cognitive science more generally. In addition, some
researchers have suggested that metaphor can be an
intrinsic part of thought, not just of external communication/expression.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1. How philosophical thinking on figurative expression and
thought can/should be exploited/heeded by relevant AI researchers
2. How computational attempts to model figurative expression can aid
philosophical thinking about it
3. How the production of figurative expression reflects speakers'
conceptualisations, goals and commitments
4. How to model/analyse/understand the emotional and evaluative content of
figurative expression
5. The intersection of issues of figurative expression and issues of
embodiment, enactivism, cognitive simulation, etc.
6. Whether thought, as opposed to external expression, can be metaphorical,
ironic, etc., and if so what this amounts to (philosophically,
computationally, psychologically, ...)
7. How figurative and especially metaphorical thinking might be involved in
introspection, and therefore be bound up with the nature of consciousness
8. Links between figurative thought/expression and the nature of creativity
9. Figurative aspects of philosophical theorizing (about any topic),
especially as uncovered by detailed technical analysis of figuration
10. Figurative aspects of notions of computation ... and even: could the
notion of computation be irreducibly metaphorical?
*Submission:*
Submissions should be 8 page full papers or extended abstracts received by *5th
January 2015 *via our EasyChair pages.
Information about this, and all other aspects of the symposium and
conference can be found on our website:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~gargetad/AISB-CP-2015.html
NOTE: While submission is by full paper or extended abstract, we encourage
speculative thought, provisional proposals, and provocative
question-raising based on careful analysis of issues.
*Important Dates:*
* Deadline for full paper submission for Symposium: 5th January 2015
* Notification of acceptance: 24th January 2015
* AISB Convention 2015: 20--22nd April 2015
*Symposium Organizers*
*Chair*: Professor John Barnden (University of Birmingham)
*Chair*: Dr. Andrew Gargett (University of Birmingham)
Dr. Yasemin J. Erden (St Mary's University)
Professor Mark Bishop (University of London)