THE PROCESSING OF METAPHOR AND METONYMY: FROM
COMPUTERS TO NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
24 - 29 April 2004
Granada, Spain
http://www.esf.org/esf_euresco_conference.php?language=0&domain=0&conference=184&meeting=2&page=1
Applications
by 06 February 2004
Supported
by the European Commission, the conference covers the processing, whether by
brains or by AI systems, of metaphor, metonymy and other closely related forms
of figuration in language and other forms of expression, as well as the possible role played by
figuration in cognition and consciousness. It encompasses computational
processing approaches (whether symbolic or non-symbolic), psychological
processing models, and neuroscientific studies of processing.
Specific
topics of interest in the area of figurative communication and cognition
include, but are not confined to, the following:
understanding
generation
identification
translation
role of
culture in processing
discourse
context handling
information
retrieval and extraction
automated
processing of lexical resources
child
development, ageing
connections
to mental or developmental disorders
brain
regions and mechanisms involved in processing.
The
conference aims especially to foster increased interchange between researchers
from different disciplines. In particular, it aims to bring insights from
computational research to the attention of other disciplines, and to enable
insights from neuroscientific and psychological research to provide inspiration
for computational investigations. The conference also welcomes linguists,
literature specialists and any other investigators who are interested in
interacting with computational, psychological or neuroscientific researchers.
It is also
intended to include some panel sessions. The ones envisaged are:
processing
of idiom
metaphor,
metonymy and other forms of figuration: how are they different?
how can
different disciplines help each other in the area of metaphor and metonymy?
cognition,
consciousness and embodiment
where
should computational, psychological and neuroscientific studies of figurative
language go from here?
funding and
networking
Prominent
researchers, including some of the invited speakers but also other
metaphor/metonymy investigators such as Ray Gibbs, will be engaged as panel
members and as respondents to the invited talks.
John A.
Barnden - UK, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Vice-chair:
Antonio Barcelona Sánchez - E, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, E
Contact
EURESCO
Office or Anne-Sophie Gablin for more information.
+ 33 388 76 71 35
+ 33 388 36 69 87
Please
quote 2004-184 in any correspondence
Speakers
will provisionally include:
Antonio
Barcelona (Murcia University, E)
The
Ubiquity of Metonymy in Cognition and Language
John
Barnden (Birmingham University, UK)
An
Artificial Intelligence Approach to Partially Creative Metaphor
Cristina Cacciari
(Modena University., I)
Idiomatic
Expression: From Lexicon to Semantic System
Dan Fass
(Gavagai Technology & Simon Fraser University, CA)
Figurative
(Metonymic and Metaphoric) Ambiguity in Newspaper Articles and Other Text
Rachel
Giora (Tel Aviv University IL)
A
Functional Approach to Suppression: The Case of Negated Metaphors
Sam
Glucksberg (Princeton University, US)
Metaphors
Are Not Similes
Jerry Hobbs
(SRI International, US)
Similarity,
Verb-Phrase Ellipsis and the word “Like”
Albert Katz
(University of Western Ontario, CA)
Social
Cultural Factors in Comprehending Nonliteral Language: Behavioural and
Neuropsychological Data
Chiara
Levorato (University of Padua, I)
The
Development of Figurative Language in Children
Katja
Markert (Leeds University, UK)
The
Automatic Resolution of Metonymies with Statistical Methods
Srini
Narayanan (SRI International, US)
Simulation
Semantics: A Neurally Plausible Computational Framework for the Link between
Language, Perception and Action
Costanza
Papagno (Università di Milano Bicocca, I)
Idiom
Comprehension in Brain-Damaged Patients
Francisco
J. Ruiz De Mendoza Ibanez (Rioja University, E)
Cognitive
Models in Interaction: The Role of High-Level and Low-Level Cognitive
Operations in Constructing Meaning
Michael
Thomas (Institute of Child Health, London, UK)
A
Connectionist Model of the Development of Metaphor Comprehension: Evaluating
Simulations and Empirical Predictions
Tony Veale
(University College Dublin, IRL)
Pathways to
Creativity in Lexical Ontologies
Yorick
Wilks (Sheffield University, UK)
Do
“Metaphor” and “Metonymy” have Clear, and Different, Senses in a Computational
Environment?
(2 more
speakers to be announced)
Posters and
Short Oral Contributions
Poster
sessions are planned for posters proposed by interested applicants. There will
be a small number of oral overviews of the collection of posters. Posters
presenting psychological, computational or neuroscientific studies are
particularly welcome, but other submissions will be entertained if they throw
some light on those areas or pose specific challenges to them.
Time will also be alloted to short oral
contributions, which will be selected from abstracts.
Applicants
may propose to present a poster or short oral paper (approx. 20 minutes). The
number of such oral papers that can be accommodated in the programme will be
limited, so applicants who propose short papers may have to be accepted for
poster presentation instead.
Posters and
short papers presenting psychological, computational or neuroscientific studies
are particularly welcome, but other submissions will be entertained (e.g., from
linguistics, literary studies, anthropology, etc.) if they relate to
psychological, computational or neuroscientific issues in some way, for
instance by posing specific challenges to them.
Prospective
applicants are urged to contact the Conference Chair if they are unsure whether
their contribution would be acceptable.
© Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la
Comunicación 16, November 2003. ISSN 1576-4737.
http://www.ucm.es/info/circulo/no16/granada.htm