Matt MacMahon: Cog Science
Bookmarks: AI: People: Cog Science
- Phil Agre - Social Networking, Institutional Change, Red Rock Eater News, Pengi, Grad Student Advice, Pengi, situated action
- Gary L. Allen - Cognitive Psychology, Spatial Cognition, Route Instructions, Gestures, Declarative Learning
- James F. Allen - Natural Language Understanding, discourse, knowledge representation, common-sense reasoning, planning
- Christine J. Alvarado
- Maneesh Agrawala - sketch maps
- Anne Anderson
- Shlomo Argamon - * Computational stylistics, including text categorization by writing style, gender issues in linguistic expression, and forensic linguistics. * Learning from textual corpora, including intelligent text retrieval, categorization, and summarization. * Utility and decision-theoretic methods in machine learning and exploration. * Machine learning methods utilizing a priori knowledge. * Models for structuring sequential data.
- Collin F. Baker - FrameNet
- Jason Baldridge - computational linguistics: formal and computational models of syntax, probabilistic models of both syntax and discourse structure, and machine learning for natural language tasks
- Dana H. Ballard - * Neurosciences, Cognitive Sciences, and Learning * Computer Vision and RoboticsAnimate Vision, Grounding vision to language, attentional learning, gaze following
- John Bateman
- Elisabeth Bates - Cognitve Psychology, Language Development, Lexicon and Grammar Relation, Brian Plasticity
- Steven Bird - Python Natural Language Toolkit, Computational Linguistics
- Daniel G Bobrow - natural language and knowledge-based systems
- Lera Boroditsky - mental representation; language; learning; meaning and use * acquisition of language and meaning * metaphoric structuring, conceptual development, and conceptual change * cross-linguistic similarities and differences in thought * working representations: how are long term representations used in thinking?
- Johan Bos - automated deduction, theorem proving and model building. syntax-semantics interface. rUnderspecification and ambiguity (scope, anaphora, presupposition) resolution. Recognising textual entailment. Wide-Coverage Semantics.computational semantics in practical dialogue systems. Declarative dialogue modelling. clarification questions. Exploiting information structure for concept-to-speech synthesis. Dialogue Systems for Embodied Agents. Godot the Robot. Instruction-Based Learning for Mobile Robots
- Helene M Brashear
- Heike M. Buhl - Cogntive Psychology, Natural Language Generation, Route Directions, Spatial Cognition
- Donna Byron
- dialog-enabled software, including speech recognition, discourse processing, anaphora resolution, and bootstrapping language resources for new domains. Collaborative Embodied Agent with Natural Speech. Virtual Reality
- M. Sandra Carberry - Compuational Linguistics * Intelligent Interfaces * Dialogue Systems * Machine Learning in Discourse * Planning and Plan Recognition * User Modeling * Medical Informatics
- Jean Carletta - HCRC Map Taskcommunicative structure of small group discussions, either face-to-face or via computer-mediation; organizational and technological effects on team working; computational modelling of dialogue; reliability of subjective coding systems
- Bob Carpenter - Computational Linguistics, Semantics, logic, speech applications
- Nick Cassimatis - research aims to understand and create human-level intelligence. a cognitive substrate of multiple inference and representation abilities handle reasoning in most or all domains. Second, implementthis substrate by flexibly and deeply integrating these reasoning and inference techniques. These principles are embodied in the Polyscheme cognitive architecture.
- Lawrence Cavedon - human dialogue interaction, Natural-language dialogue systems for HCI, autonomous agents and multi-agent teams, AI formal methods, Situated reasoning and default reasoning, AI and Cognitive Science
- Nancy Chang - modeling how people and machines can learn and use language. computational and cognitive linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive modeling, and developmental psychology. language learning, language understanding, lexical semantics, probabilistic inference, machine learning, knowledge representation, and neural and connectionist models of computation.
- Eugene Charniak - language understanding, knowledge representation, reasoning under uncertainty, and learning. part-of-speech tagging, probabilistic context-free grammar induction, and, syntactic disambiguation through word statistics, efficient syntactic parsing, and lexical resource acquisition.
- Noam Chomsky
- Philip R. Cohen
- Edward H. Cornell - cognitive science, spatial cognition, cognitive map, behavior of lost people, GIS, wayfinding
- Dick Crouch - computational semantics and pragmatics, ambiguity management, context-dependency, syntax-semantics interface, and natural language understanding / knowledge representation. PARC NLTT, LFG, glue semantics, XLE
- James E. Cutting - Perception of layout and depth. Art and perceeption. Wayfinding. Visual perception of motion. Information and information use in perception. Optics and projections. Event perception. History and philosophy of vision and perception. Perception of cinema.
- Robert Dale - Natural Language Generation, Reference and Anaphora, Spoken Language Dialog Systems, Natural Route Description / Directions
- Mary Dalrymple - syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and semantics. syntactic properties of natural languages, process of assembling meanings of words and phrases into meanings of larger phrases and sentences. LFG
- Jim Davis - software systems that improve communication among people. Direction Assistance (which gives spoken driving instructions over the telephone) and Back Seat Driver (which does the same thing in a car, while you're driving.)
- Randall Davis
- Daniel C. Dennett - cognitive science, philiosophy of mind
- John Dowding - RIALIST, NASA Ames/ RIACS Language Modeling Parsing and Formal Language Theory Logic Programming and Prolog Dialogue Modeling and Spoken Dialogue Systems Prosody and Spontaneous Speech Effects
- Philip Edmonds - Computational linguistics, discourse of route direction dialog
- Barbara Di Eugenio - Natural Language Processing (NLP), human-computer interaction, educational technology, multimedia systems. Natural Language discourse and dialogue co-ordinated graphics tools. collaboration between human or artificial agents. intelligent agents collaborative and tutoring systems.
- Vyvyan Evans - Cognitive Linguistics, Semantics, Spatial and Temporal Cognition
- Jerry Feldman
- Ron Ferguson
- Will Fitzgerald - Natural language understanding, computational models of dialogue, task execution, combining statistical/information theoretical models with semantic models for natural language understanding, humane computing, complex event recognition
- Michael Fleischman - MIT Media Lab's Cognitive Machines Lab under Deb Roy. language learning and robotics. Eduard Hovy in Natural Language Processing at ISI. MS in Computational Linguistics at USC. non-linguistic content in natural language understanding, learning to understand situated language in VR and robotics. semantics roles. question answering. FrameNet. instance-concept extraction.
- Kenneth Forbus
- Nancy Franklin - Cognitive Psychology, spatial cognition, memory
- Robert Frederking - natural language processing, knowledge representation, reasoning, and system design, from both application and theoretical viewpoints. Iinteraction between sentence understanding, sentence generation, dialogue phenomena, and non-linguistic capabilities. acquisition of semantic primitives via non-symbolic processes, and how to represent and reason about continuous substances and time. simulation of human cognition, and the philosophical and theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence and natural language.
- Christian Freska
- Charles Ransom Gallistel
- Simon Garrod - Natural Language Processing, discourse processing, dialogue and the semantics of spatial prepositions.
- Michael Gasser
- Daniel Gildea
- Peter Gorniak - the intersection of situated language understanding in human beings and machines, intelligent user interfaces and philosophy of mind. the mental representation of concrete and abstract objects by humans and machines, and how language binds to this representation. MIT Media Lab Cognitive Machines Lab under Deb Roy.
- Barbara J Grosz
- Alexander Gruenstein
- Andrew Haas - artificial intelligence, including syntax, semantics and parsing of natural language, knowledge representation (especially the representation of the notions of belief and knowledge), and planning. Reactive replanning, route instructions, episteology, sequential theory of propositional attitudes
- Christopher Habel - Representation of knowledge about space, time and events. Language comprehension and language production. Route instructions.
- Kristian J Hammond - Case-based planning, Chef, Association Engine
- Stevan Harnad
- cognitive sciences, philosophy
- Catherine L. Harris
- William Hayward
- Mary Hegarty
- Donald Heth - cognitive science, spatial cognition, human wayfinding and navigation, decision support tools for search and rescue management
- Jim Hieronymus - # Spoken Dialogue Systems (TRINDI) # Multi-Language Speech Recognition # Prosodics in Speech Recognition (NordSem)
- Ronald M. Kaplan - Computational Linguitics, Natural Language Processing, LFG, PARC Natural Language Theory and Technology
- Julia Hirschberg - computational linguistics, relationship between intonation and discourse. intonation in spoken dialogue systems, speech synthesis, and speech understanding; audio browsing, retrieval, and summarization over large corpora of broadcast news and voicemail; and interfaces to speech information. Boston Directions Corpus
- Stephen Hirtle
- Edwin Hutchins - Cognitive Psychology, Cogntive Anthropology, "Cognition in the Wild" Spatial Reasoning, Situated Cognition, Human-automated system Interaction
- John Hutchins - Machine translation and computer-based translation
- Ray Jackendoff
- Margaret Jefferies
- Aravind K. Joshi - computaional linguistics. formal linguistics, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, cognitive science. syntactic and semantic representations for language structure, relationship of language structure to logic, mathematical linguistics, parsing algorithms, question-answer systems as interfaces to databases, theories of representation and inferencing in natural language, computational aspects of discourse, psychological implications of processing models, problems in processing certain kinds of bilingual utterances, some aspects of language learning
- Dan Jurafsky - Speech Recognition, Understanding, Synthesis Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing: Semantic Understanding and Question Answering Computational Phonology Machine Learning of Natural Language Computational Psycholinguistics
- Lauri Karttunen - Discourse Referents, conversational implicature, compuational linguistics, PARC NLTT, LFG
- Henry Kautz - Knowledge representation, Reasoning Systems, Assisted Cognition, Behavior Inference
- John Kelleher - natural language interfaces; interpretation of anaphoric and deictic referring expressions (including: definite and indefinite descriptions, demonstrative accompanied by deictic gestures, pronouns, other anaphoric expressions, one anaphora, locative expressions, and coordinating expressions). grounding of spatial semantics in visual salience. * real-time algorithm for modelling visual salience in simulated 3-D environments, * algorithm for interpreting locative expressions, * discourse model integrating visual and linguistic information. Situated Language Interpreter
- Jonathan Kelly
- Ewan Klein - * Service-oriented architectures for NLP Systems. * Shallow processing and information extraction. Instruction-Based Learning for Mobile Robots
- Kevin Knight - artificial intelligence, natural language processing, semantics, machine translation, unification, machine learning, heuristic search, automata theory, decipherment.
- Jonas Kuhn
- Barbara Landau
- George Lakoff
- Pat Langley
- Michael Lesk
- Willem J.M. Levelt - Psycholinguistics, Route Directions, Linguistics, Spatial Description, Knowledge Representation, Spatial Knowledge, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Maps, Spatial Reasoning,
- Stephen C. Levinson - Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.Linguistics, anthropology, cognitive anthropology.Spatial language
- Diane J. Litman - artificial intelligence: computational linguistics, knowledge representation and reasoning, natural language learning, plan recognition, spoken language, user modeling, and AI and education.
- Hugo Liu - Artificial Intelligence: Point-of-view Models, Computing Taste, Identity, Culture, and Aesthetics, Common Sense Reasoning, Narrative Comprehension, Affective Computing, Automatic Programming, Generative Art, Semiotics: Duration, Cultural Semiology, Aesthetics of Narrative, Deleuze, Bergson & Nietzsche, Constructionism and Self, Feminist Epistemology, Will to Aesthetic Power,
- Edward Loper - Computational Linguistics, python natural language toolkit, tree2image
- Bradley C. Love - Ccognitive Psychology, Categories and Concepts, lovelab
- Mitch Marcus - statistical and symbolic methods for automatic acquisition of linguistic structure; methodologies for annotation of linguistic structure in large text corpora; natural language processing; and cognitive science.
- Jim Martin - cognitive linguistics with empirical, probabilistic, and corpus-based computational approaches, empirical metaphor research, latent semantic analysis
- Teenie Matlock - Fictive motion, Implicit spatial language and eye movements, Abstract concepts and metaphor, Spatial models, Gestures, real and virtual, Interactive cognition
- Nikolaos Mavridis - MIT Media Lab's Cognitive Machines Lab under Deb Roy. Cooperative robotic assistants that can communicate fluidly with humans using natural language. Grounded Situation Models (GSM) : physically grounded semantic representations and processes. resolving descriptions of object or temporal referents, answering questions about the present or the past, acting on objects, and updating its model of the situation through visual, proprioceptive, or linguistic evidence. systems that treat speech actions and sensorymotor actions in a unified manner (Resolver). prototype automatically controlled camera that uses visual attentional salience for targetting (Spectator). activity detection in predifined regions of ineterests, and a visualisation for large-timescale multiple-location multimodal activity (Actigrams).
- Matt McCabe - spatial navigation, scene perception, low vision, computer modeling, and artificial intelligence.
- John McCarthy - logical ai, common sense, ai foundations, ai history
- Tim Menzies
- Rada Mihalcea - # Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Information Retrieval. Lexical Semantics (including: semantic similarity, word sense disambiguation, semantic parsing)
- Marvin Minsky - AI, cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics
- Eva Mok - * Natural Language Understanding * Cognitive Linguistics * Computational Linguistics * Computational modeling of language acquisition.computational model of language acquisition, with particular focus on how language refers to context. In pro-drop languages, in particular, it is not only permissible but common to elide the subject and/or object from sentences. These languages pose an interesting set of challenges for language acquisition.
- Daniel R. Montello
- James Morgan - # Research in * Language acquisition * Infant speech perception * Learnability theory * Psycholinguistics
- Julie Bauer Morrison - cognitive psychology, spatail cognition, animation, reasoning and recognizing body positions
- Erik T. Mueller - Commonsense reasoningStory understandingIntelligent user interfacesIBM Watson
- Amitabha Mukerjee
- Srini Narayanan - Probabilistic models of language interpretation, graphical models of stochastic grammars, semantics of linguistic aspect, on-line metaphor interpretation, embodied rationality. role of sub-cortical structures in attentional control.
- Ani Nenkova - computational linguistics, natural language processing, pyramid evaluation of multi-document summarization of news
- Don Norman - Cognitive Psychology, Usability, "The Design of Everyday Things"
- Geoffrey Nunberg - semantics and pragmatics, text classification, and written-language structure. NPR and Language Log
- Martha Palmer - Artificial Intelligence, Speech and Language Processing, Representation of semantic information and its use in natural language processing applications; artificial intelligence; logic programming; interactions between syntax, semantics and pragmatics; shallow semantic processing of biomedical literature.
- Rebecca Passonneau - AQUAINT: Advanced Question & Answering for Intelligence (ARDA)Integrating Robust Semantics, Event Detection, Information Fusion and Summarization for Multimedia, Multilingual Question Answering CLiMB, TIDES * GIA: Guided Information Alignment (Definitional Text) 1. General Guidelines for NLP Evaluation 2. Summarization 3. Dialogue as a Metaphor for Evaluation
- Raymond C. Perrault
- Stanley Peters - Situation Theory and Situation Semantics Theory of Information Content Mathematical Properties of Grammars Parallel Processing and Cooperative Software
- Rosalind Picard
- Steven Pinker - language and thought, "How the Mind Works", inflectional morpology, language acquisition, language evolution, cognitive architecture
- Bruce W. Porter
- Stephen G. Pulman - Semantics, Pragmatics, Computational Linguistics, Automated Reasoning, Machine Learning and Language, First Order English, Automarking, Learning Domain Theories
- James Pustejovsky - computational linguistics, lexical semantics, compositional semantics, theories of categorization, commonsense metaphysics, automatic indexing techniques, and content-based information extraction.
- Michael Ramscar - concepts, metaphor, analogy, language learning and processing, and all manner of mental representations
- Jef Raskin
- A David Redish
- Terry Regier
- Ehud Reiter - Natural Language Understanding, Conntecting Language to the World, natural language generation, medical informatics, multimodal systems # Natural Language Generation * Word Representation and Selection * System-Building Issues
- Tony Sanford - A.J. Sanford: Natural Language Processing and Natural Language Understanding
- Michael F. Schober - Cognitive Psychology. Dialog, perspective-taking, natural language understanding, human-computer interaction
- Howard Shrobe
- John Searle - Philosophy of Mind and Language
- Stuart C. Shapiro - computerized rational agent capable of conversing in English about various every-day and specialized topics, including how to perform behaviors within its repertoire; capable of being taught about such subjects by instruction carried out in English, possibly with the aid of gestures, drawings and diagrams; capable of reasoning about those subjects, discussing them with humans, and performing as instructed. hardware and software-simulated robots operating in the real world and in simulated worlds, and investigating the implications of embodiment on knowledge representation and reasoning.
- Nobuyuki Shimizu - Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Route Instructions
- Steve Sinha - Question Answering using sophisticated inference mechanisms based on rich semantic structures. exploiting event structure through QA processing pipeline. three stages: event model-based answer selection, event simulation-based query expansion, and CPRM-informed answer determination. Berkeley, ICSI, NTL, AQUINAS
- Jeffrey Mark Siskind
- Dan Slobin
- Elizabeth Spelke
- Dan Sperber - social and cognitive scientist. co-author of "Relevance: Communication and Cognition" with Deirdre Wilson. "Relevance Theory".
- Brian J. Stankiewicz
- Saul Sternberg
- Kristina Striegnitz - natural language generation, route instructions
- Tom Stocky
- Chris Stolte
- Matthew Stone - Natural Language Generation, Computational Semantics, Knowledge Representation, Conversational Agentsinstructions
- Eve Sweetser
- Heike Tappe - understanding complex cognitive activities in people. acquiring, producing and understanding language. relations between language and general cognition. interface between representations and processes within the language system. verbalization of events and spatial language.
- Michael J. Tarr - Interaction of Cognitive and Perspective Knowledge, Visual Navigation and Scene Representation in Virtual Environments
- Carroll Thronesbery
- Greg Trafton - * Cognition of Complex Visualizations * Spatial Transformations * Interruptions * Cognitive Robotics * Reactivity * Learning * Frames of Reference and Spatial Reasoning * Memory, Goals, and Cognitive Architectures
- David R. Traum - Dialogue, Natural Language Generation, Agents
- Josef van Genabith - compuational linguistics, natutral language processing, lfg, logic, metaphor, discourse, semantics, treebanks
- Keith Vander Linden - intelligent information retrieval and delivery systems, Natural Language Generation, DRAFTER, Instructions, uman language technology, knowledge management, human-computer interaction, software engineering, and cognitive science
- Sebastian Varges - Natural language generation (NLG), dialogue systems and natural language processing, computational semantics, generating route instructions
- Tom Wasow
- Bonnie Webber - Natural-language processing, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence. (These interests are linked through my deep interest in reasoning and communicating about actions and processes.)
- Thomas D. Wickens
- Robert Wilensky
- Deirdre Wilson - Pragmatics: the theory and practice of communication and comprehension, particularly verbal. Disambiguation, reference, implicature, speech acts, figurative meanings.Cognitive ProcessesPhilosophy of MindSemanticsSpeech Perception
- Terry Winograd - Human-Computer Interaction, Natural Language Understanding, Usability, Cognitive Science
- Patrick Henry Winston - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Systems Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, and Linguistics.
- Stephan Winter
- David Woods
- Dieter Wunderlich - Cognitive Psychology, Spatial Cognition, Spatial Language, Route Directions, Deixis
- R. Michael Young - artificial intelligence in virtual worlds; planning, plan recognition, natural language generation, computational models of narrative. Liquid Narrative group, Gricean maxims
- Chen Yu - Development and Learning in Humans and Machines, Perceptual Intelligence, Machine Learning * Embodied Language Acquisition * Action Recognition o Action Segmentation o Task Recognition * Attention-based Perceptual Interface Dana Ballard
Generated by bk2site.