Zobrazenie zdroja stránky CSCTR2010 Nemáte oprávnenie upravovať túto stránku z nasledovných dôvodov: Činnosť, ktorú požadujete, môže vykonať iba člen skupiny: Používatelia. Činnosť, ktorú požadujete, môže vykonať iba člen skupiny: Používatelia. Môžete si zobraziť a kopírovať zdroj tejto stránky: Master's Program in Cognitive Science, Univ. Bratislava<br /><br /> ==='''Winter semester 2009/10'''=== <br />'''Lecturer:''' [[Dana Retova|Mgr. Dana Retová]]., Dept. of Applied Informatics, room I-6, [mailto:dana.retova@ii.fmph.uniba.sk '''<font color="#3333ff">dana.retova@ii.fmph.uniba.sk</font>''']''' ''' <br />'''Time/Place: '''tba <br />'''Credits:''' 5<br /><br /> ==Indicative Content<br />== The goal of the course is to formulate questions and provide views from literature helping to understand how cognitive systems manipulate with meanings. Also, to present cognitive theories of representation bridging the gaps between brain, language and culture. ==Assessment== # [#sem Seminar] 70% (readings, discussions, activity) # [#oex Oral exam] 30% ==Schedule== (The list of readings and other resources will be updated on the way.)<br /> {| style="text-align: left" border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" | style="vertical-align: top" | '''Session'''<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | '''Date '''<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | '''Topic'''<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | '''Seminar Readings'''<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | '''Moderated by'''<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | '''Supplementary Resources'''<br /> |- | style="vertical-align: top" | 1.<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | [http://ii.fmph.uniba.sk/%7Etakac/CSCTR/1Intro.ppt Introduction & basic terminology]<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | (none)<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | * Takáč, M.: [http://ii.fmph.uniba.sk/%7Etakac/publications/TakacThesis.pdf Construction of Meanings in Living and Artificial Agents]. dissertation thesis, Comenius University, Bratislava, 2007, pages 22-31. |- | style="vertical-align: top" | 2.<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | Semiotics and enactive approach<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | * Nehaniv, C.: [http://ii.fmph.uniba.sk/%7Etakac/CSCTR/resources/nehaniv.pdf The making of meaning in societies: Semiotic and information theoretic background to the evolution of communication]. In: Edmonds, B., Dautenhahn, K.(Eds.), Proceedings of the AISB 2000 Symposium: Starting from Society – the Application of Social Analogies to Computational Systems. AISB, pp.73 –84. | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | * Ziemke & Sharkey (2001). [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.41.1530&rep=rep1&type=pdf A stroll through the worlds of robots and animals: Applying Jakob von Uexküll's theory of meaning to adaptive robots and artificial life.] Semiotica, 134(1-4), 701-746. <br /> |- | style="vertical-align: top" | 3.<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | Meaning in animal world: evolutionary view<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | * Kováč, L: [http://www.fns.uniba.sk/%7Elkovac/013.doc Fundamental principles of cognitive biology.] Evolution and Cognition 6, 51-69, 2000. | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | * Gärdenfors, P.: [http://ii.fmph.uniba.sk/%7Etakac/ICS/zdroje/gard4.ps Cued and detached representations in animal cognition]", ''Behavioural Processes 36''<span style="font-weight: normal">, </span>1996<span style="font-weight: normal">, </span><span style="font-weight: normal">pp. 263-273</span><span style="font-weight: normal">.</span> * Gärdenfors, P.: "[http://ii.fmph.uniba.sk/%7Etakac/ICS/zdroje/gard3.pdf Language and the evolution of cognition]", in ''Penser l'esprit: Des sciences de la cognition à une philosophie cognitive''<span style="font-weight: normal">, ed. by V. Rialle and D. Fisette, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, Grenoble, 1996, pp. 151-172.</span> * Gärdenfors, P.: [http://www3.isrl.uiuc.edu/%7Ejunwang4/langev/localcopy/pdf/gardenfors04inbook.pdf Cooperation and the Evolution of Symbolic Communication.] In D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel, editors, Evolution of Communication Systems: A Comparative Approach, (2004), pages 237-256. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. |- | style="vertical-align: top" | 4.<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | Biologically motivated semantics of distinguishing criteria<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | * Šefránek, J.: [http://ii.fmph.uniba.sk/%7Etakac/CSCTR/resources/sefranekAKRR08.pdf Knowledge Representation for Animal Reasoning]. In: Honkela, T., Pöllä, M., Paukkeri, M., Simula, O. (eds.): ''Proceedings of AKRR '08, the 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning'', Espoo, Finland, 2008, pp. 65-72. | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | * Takáč, M.: [http://ii.fmph.uniba.sk/%7Etakac/CSCTR/resources/KARK_en.pdf mindmap for Šefránek, J.: Cognition without mental processes ] * Takáč, M.: [http://ii.fmph.uniba.sk/%7Etakac/publications/takacICCS06.pdf Cognitive Semantics for Dynamic Environments]. In: Hitzler, P., Schärfe, H., P. Øhrstrøm (eds.): ''Contribution to ICCS 2006 - 14th International Conference on Conceptual Structures''. Aalborg University Press, Aalborg, Denmark, 2006, pp. 202-215. |- | style="vertical-align: top" | 5.<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | Cognitive semantics of Lakoff<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | * Lakoff, George (1987). ''Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. ''Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, Foreward and chap. 1 and 4-6. * [http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061113094200AAyFxVZ Love metaphors] | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | * Šefránek, J.: [http://ii.fmph.uniba.sk/%7Etakac/CSCTR/resources/lakoffJS.pdf slide notes] for Lakoff's Women, Fire and Dangerous Things |- | style="vertical-align: top" | 6.<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | Conceptual spaces<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | * Gärdenfors, P.: [http://www.lucs.lu.se/peter.gardenfors/Abstracts/Papers/Concepts&NMI.ps Concept representations and nonmonotonic inferences]. pp. 25-39 in Logic for a Change: Essays dedicated to Sten Lindström on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday, Uppsala Prints and Preprints in Philosophy 1995:9, Uppsala. Revised version in Mathware & Soft Computing 3, pp. 17-31. | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | * Gärdenfors, P.: "[http://ii.fmph.uniba.sk/%7Etakac/ICS/zdroje/gard1.pdf Symbolic, conceptual and subconceptual representations]", pp. 255-270 in ''Human and Machine Perception: Information Fusion''<span style="font-weight: normal">, ed. by V. Cantoni, V. di Gesù, A. Setti and D. Tegolo, Plenum Press, New York, </span>1997<span style="font-weight: normal">.</span> * Gärdenfors, P.: 1996i "[http://ii.fmph.uniba.sk/%7Etakac/ICS/zdroje/gard2.pdf Conceptual spaces as a basis for cognitive semantics]", in ''Philosophy and Cognitive Science''<span style="font-weight: normal">, ed. by A. Clark et al., Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1996, pp. 159-180.</span> * Gärdenfors, P.:"[http://www.lucs.lu.se/LUCS/040/LUCS.040.pdf Meanings as conceptual structures]", in '''Mindscapes: Philosophy, Science, and the Mind'''<span style="font-weight: normal">, ed. by M. Carrier and P. Machamer, Pittsburgh University Press, Pittsburgh, 1997, pp. 61-86.</span> |- | style="vertical-align: top" | 7.<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | Brain related semantics<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | * Barsalou, L.: [http://www.psychology.emory.edu/cognition/barsalou/papers/Barsalou_BBS_1999_perceptual_symbol_systems.pdf Perceptual Symbol Systems], Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 1999, pp. 577-609. | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | * Barsalou, L.W., Yeh, W., Luka, B.J., Olseth, K.L., Mix, K.S., & Wu, L. (1993). [http://www.psychology.emory.edu/cognition/barsalou/papers/Barsalou_et_al_chap_1993_concepts_meaning.pdf Concepts and meaning]. In K. Beals, G. Cooke, D. Kathman, K.E. McCullough, S. Kita, & D. Testen (Eds.), ''Chicago Linguistics Society 29: Papers from the parasession on conceptual representations'' (pp. 23-61). University of Chicago: Chicago Linguistics Society. * [http://ii.fmph.uniba.sk/%7Etakac/ICS/NBL/index.html Neural Basis of Language 2004], ICSI U Berkeley (local copy) |- | style="vertical-align: top" | 8.<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | Toward grammar | style="vertical-align: top" | * Bergen, B. & Chang, N.: [http://www.google.sk/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icsi.berkeley.edu%2FNTL%2Fpapers%2Fecg.pdf&ei=D_TgSMy9EIzg0gWxtJnrAw&usg=AFQjCNFQt5DAlV4tkW4PQLzHpFYy60HnUg&sig2=pWZEbzpY-LiD_nkkDi7Tqg Embodied Construction Grammar in Simulation-Based Language Understanding]. In J.-O. Östman and M. Fried (eds.), ''Construction Grammar(s): Cognitive and Cross-Language Dimensions''. Johns Benjamins, 2005. (Reprinted in V. Evans, B. Bergen and J. Zinken (eds.), ''The Cognitive Linguistics Reader''. Equinox. 2007. | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | [http://ii.fmph.uniba.sk/%7Etakac/CSCTR/NBL/index.html <br />] |- | style="vertical-align: top" | 9.<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | Meaning in Artificial Systems: Basic Problems<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | * Harnad, S. (1990) The Symbol Grounding Problem. Physica D 42: 335-346. * Harnad, S. (1993) [http://cogprints.org/1586/0/harnad93.symb.anal.net.html Grounding Symbols in the Analog World with Neural Nets]. Think 2(1) 12 - 78 * Ziemke, T.: [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.31.1737&rep=rep1&type=pdf Rethinking Grounding] In: Riegler, Peschl & von Stein (eds.) Understanding Representation in the Cognitive Sciences (pp. 177-190). Plenum Press: New York. | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | * Turing, A. M., 1950. Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind 59, 433–460. * Searle, J. R., 1980. Minds, brains, and programs. Behavioural and Brain Sciences 3, 417–457. * Newell, A., Simon, H. A., 1976. Computer science as empirical inquiry: Symbols and search. Commun. ACM 19 (3), 113–126. * Fodor J. A. and Pylyshyn Z. W.: [http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ftp/pub/papers/jaf.pdf Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture: A Critical Analysis]. In: Connections and symbols. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 3–71. 1988. * Ziemke: Construction |- | style="vertical-align: top" | 10.<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | Meaning in Artificial Systems: Case Studies<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | (one of): * Wiedermann, J: HUGO: A Cognitive Architecture with an Incorporated World Model,<br /> Technical report CSAV No. 966, April 2006 * Deb Roy. (2008, in press). A Mechanistic Model of Three Facets of Meaning. Chapter to appear in ''Symbols, Embodiment, and Meaning'', de Vega, Glenberg, and Graesser, eds. [http://web.media.mit.edu/%7Edkroy/papers/pdf/canary_oct17_2007.pdf <span class="s1">pdf</span>] * Brooks, R: Intelligence without representation. <span class="m"><font size="-1">Artificial Intelligence, Vol.47, 1991, pp.139-159.</font></span> * survey of chatbots | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | * Vernon D., Metta G., Sandini G.: [http://www.robotcub.org/misc/review2/06_Vernon_Metta_Sandini.pdf A Survey of Artificial Cognitive Systems: Implications for the Autonomous Development of Mental Capabilities in Computational Agents]. Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on, Vol. 11, No. 2. (2007), pp. 151-180. * Takáč, M.: [http://ii.fmph.uniba.sk/%7Etakac/publications/TakacThesis.pdf Construction of Meanings in Living and Artificial Agents]. dissertation thesis, Comenius University, Bratislava, submitted in August 2007, Chapter 4. |- | style="vertical-align: top" | 11.<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | Constructivist Approach<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | * L.Smith and M. Gasser [2005]. The Development of Embodied Cognition: Six Lessons from Babies ''Artificial Life''. Vol. 11, Issues 1-2, pp. 13 - 30 | style="vertical-align: top" | tba <br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | * Takáč, M.: Construction of Meanings in Biological and Artificial Agents. In: Trajkovski, G., Collins, S. G. (eds.): ''Agent-Based Societies: Social and Cultural Interactions'', IGI Global, Hershey, PA, in press. |- | style="vertical-align: top" | 12.<br /> | style="vertical-align: top" | tba | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center" colspan="4" | '''Closing & Exam <br />''' |} ===<br />=== ==Assessment details== ===Seminar Activities=== Before each seminar, a student should carefully read '''all''' articles from the related group of '''seminar readings''' (supplementary resources are '''optional''') and '''make up at least one question or a discussion point related to the articles'''. The discussion points should be sent to the mailing list <span class="header-section">'''<font color="#3333ff">[mailto:CSCTR2009@lists.dai.fmph.uniba.sk C S C T R 2 0 0 9 (at) l i s t s . d a i . f m p h . u n i b a . s k] </font>'''</span>'''not later than on the day before the seminar''' '''by 8:00 p.m.'''. <span class="header-section">For each seminar, a moderator will be appointed in advance. The duty of the moderator is to '''collect and sort received discussion points and then moderate the discussion'''</span><span class="header-section">. The students will be evaluated for their prepared questions, discussion activity and ability to moderate the discussions</span><span class="header-section">.<br /></span><br /> ===Oral Exam<br />=== <span class="header-section">There will be short oral individual exams at the end of the semester. The examination syllabus will be published here in advance. </span><br /><span class="header-section"><br /></span><br />''Last modification: Sep 04, 2009 '' Späť na CSCTR2010. ← CSCTR2010
