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Tandem Workshop on Optimality in Language and Geometric Approaches to Cognition
Workshop Berlin, December 11-13, 2010. Schützenstraße 18, 10117 Berlin (Mitte), ZAS.
Organizers: Anton Benz (ZAS, Berlin), Reinhard Blutner (ILLC, Amsterdam), Manfred Krifka (ZAS/HU Berlin), Peter beim Graben (HU Berlin), Nicolas Stindt (HU, DAAD)

Together with the Department of German Language and Linguistics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and with the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin is going to organize a three-day 'Tandem Workshop on Optimality in Language and Geometric Approaches to Cognition' to be held at the Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), December 11th - 13th, 2010. The aim of the workshop is to encompass symbolic Optimality Theory (OT) and geometric representations of cognitive states and processes at the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels. In particular, the workshop will focus on issues such as:

Part A.

  • OT syntax and OT parsing
  • Neural networks and OT
  • Gradedness and OT
  • OT and compositionality
  • OT semantics and OT pragmatics

Part B.

  • Conceptual spaces
  • Vagueness
  • Geometric models of meaning and compositionality
  • Geometric models of linguistic and perceptional ambiguity
  • Tensor product representations
  • Transient dynamic computation


Invited Participants:

     Part A

     Part B
 

Gerlof Bouma (Potsdam, D)
Petra Hendriks (Groningen, N)
Helen de Hoop (Nijmegen, N)
Geraldine Legendre (Baltimore, USA)
Paul Smolensky (Baltimore, USA)
Henriette de Swart (Utrecht, N)
Henk Zeevat (Amsterdam, N)		 Harald Atmanspacher (Freiburg, D)
 Stefan Frank (London, UK)
Peter Gärdenfors (Lund, S)
Stefan Kiebel (Leipzig, D)
Eduardo Mizraji (Montevideo, Uruguay)
Mikhail I. Rabinovich (San Diego, USA)
Paul Smolensky (Baltimore, USA)