Workshop on Grounding Word Meaning Capitol Ballroom A, Madison Concourse Hotel Madison, Wisconsin July 31, 1998 8:30-8:45 Registration, Welcome 8:45-10:00 Development Linda B. Smith, Eliana Colunga, and Larissa Samuelson (Indiana University) On how general learning processes create language-specific learning biases Amanda Woodward (University of Chicago) Form and function in very early word learning William Merriman (Kent State University) The CALLED model of early word learning 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-12:10 Concepts Lawrence Barsalou (Emory University) Perceptual simulation in conceptual tasks Pei Wang (Intelligenesis Corporation and Indiana University) Grounding the meaning of symbols on the system's experience Arthur Glenberg (University of Wisconsin) Grounding meaning in affordances Michael Gasser and Eliana Colunga (Indiana University) Linguistic/non-linguistic interactions in the learning of word meaning 12:10-1:40 Lunch 1:40-2:30 Space Barbara Landau (University of Delaware) Spatial cognition and spatial language: What do we need to know to talk about space? Terry Regier (University of Chicago), Laura Carlson-Radvansky (University of Notre Dame) Attention and population coding in spatial language 2:30-4:10 Embodiment 1 Jerome A. Feldman and George Lakoff (ICSI and UC Berkeley; talk given by Srini Narayanan) Structured connectionist modeling of word learning Claudia Brugman and Srini Narayanan (ICSI and UC Berkeley) Toward a dynamic semantics of ``HAVE A COW'' David Andre, Nancy Chang, and Srini Narayanan (ICSI and UC Berkeley) Active representations for language acquisition and us Luc Steels (SONY, Vrije Universiteit Brussel; talk given by Paul Vogt, VUB) Grounding meaning and language in situated embodied action 4:10-4:30 Coffee Break 4:30-5:45 Embodiment 2 Paul R. Cohen and Tim Oates (University of Massachusetts) A dynamical basis for the semantic content of verbs Michael T. Rosenstein and Paul R. Cohen (University of Massachusetts) Symbol grounding with delay coordinates Deb Roy and Alex Pentland (MIT) Learning audio-visually grounded words from natural input 5:45-6:30 General Discussion 7:00- Dinner and More Discussion Organizers Help Sponsors Michael Gasser Eliana Colunga AAAI 98 Terry Regier Cognitive Science Conference 98 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Michael Gasser 7/29/1998