Programme

At Friday night, 10.12.2010, around 9pm we are going to organize an "ice-breaker" in the Café restaurant "Chagall", Georgenstrasse 4, 10117 Berlin-Mitte: http://www.townster.de/berlin/ort/cafe-chagall . There we shall also pass you the room-keys if you have not already checked in. The restaurant is very close to the S-Bahn station "Friedrichstrasse".

Saturday, December 11. Part A: Optimality in Language

Bidirectional vs. Unidirectional Optimization in adults & children

9:30		Coffee
10:00		Petra Hendriks: Online processing of bidirectional optimization [pdf] [ppt]
10:30		Henriette de Swart: Telicity features of bare nominals [ppt]
11:00		Henk Zeevat: Parity and Automatic Self-Monitoring [pdf]
11:30 - 12:00 Break
12:00		Geraldine Legendre & Paul Smolensky: Modeling comprehension of personal pronouns: Bidirectional vs. Unidirectional Optimization in adults & children [pdf]
12:30		Paul Smolensky: Embedding OT grammars in neural networks: Discrete and gradient effects in production [pdf]
13:00 - 14:30 Break
14:30		Manfred Krifka: An optimality-theoretic treatment of the hedonic implicatures of taste and smell [pdf]
15:00		Lotte Hogeweg: Optimality Theoretic Lexical Semantics [ppt] [related paper pdf]
15:30		Gerlof Bouma & Ruben van de Vijver: Pluralization in German: a challenge for frequency-based learning

Sunday, December 12. Part B: Geometric Approaches to Cognition

9:30		Coffee
10:00		Stefan Evert: Some mathematical insights into distributional semantic models [pdf]
10:30		Stefan Kiebel: A hierarchy of time-scales and the brain [ppt]
11:00		Peter beim Graben: Stable heteroclinic sequences as a paradigm for dynamic psycholinguistics [ppt]
11:30 - 12:00 Break
12:00		Harald Atmannspacher: The Necker-Zeno model [pdf] [related paper pdf]
12:30		Sonja Smets: Dynamic conditionals as a unifying setting for information change: From quantum logic to dynamic belief revision
13:00 - 14:00 Break
14:00		Reinhard Blutner: Geometric models of meaning and compositionality [ppt] [related paper pdf]
14:30		Stefan Frank: The dynamics of incremental sentence comprehension: A situation-space model [ppt]

Monday, December 13. Part B: Geometric Approaches to Cognition

9:30		Coffee
10:00		Peter Gaerdenfors and Massimo Warglien: Using conceptual spaces to model actions and events [ppt]
10:30		Anton Benz & Alexandra Strekalova: Conceptual spaces for matching and representing preferences [pdf]
11:00 -11:30 Break
11:30		Eduardo Mizraji: Modeling the cognitive spatio-temporal operations using associative memories and multiplicative contexts [pdf]
12:00		Paul Smolensky: Embedding the discrete within the continuous: Processing implications of tensor product representations for linguistic production [pdf]
12:30		Coffee

Cultural Events

Option 1	Staatsoper im Schillertheater
Option 2	Schaubuehne
Option 3	Komische Oper
Option 4	Berliner Ensemble