NLPCS 2013: 10th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science
When Oct 15, 2013 – Oct 16, 2013
Where Marseille, France
Submission Deadline Jun 5, 2013
Notification Due Jul 31, 2013
Final Version Due Sep 15, 2013
From the webpage:
The aim of this workshop is to foster interactions among researchers and practitioners in Natural Language Processing (NLP) by taking a Cognitive Science perspective. What characterises this kind of approach is the fact that NLP is considered from various viewpoints (linguistics, psychology, neurosciences, artificial intelligence,…), and that a deliberate effort is made to reconcile or integrate them into a coherent whole.
We believe that this is necessary, as the modelling of the process is simply too complex to be addressed by a single discipline. No matter whether we deal with a natural or artificial system (people or computers) or a combination of both (interactive NLP), systems rely on many types of very different knowledge sources. Hence, strategies vary considerably depending on the person (novice, expert), on the available knowledge (internal and external), and on the nature of the information processor: human, machines or both (human-machine communication).
The problem we are confronted with and the spirit of the workshop can fairly well be captured via the following two quotations :
- Build models that illustrate somehow the way people use language slightly adapted comment taken from Martin Kay’s talk given when receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award, http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/J/J05/J05-4001.pdf
- Make machines behave more like humans, rather than make people behave like machines (“Humaniser la machine, ne pas mécaniser l’utilisateur”), O. Nérot)
This kind of workshop provides an excellent opportunity to get closer to these goals. Encouraging cross-fertilization it may possibly lead to the creation of true semiotic extensions, i.e. the development of brain inspired (or brain compatible) cognitive systems.
I rather like the focus of this NLP workshop.
You?