Session
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Date
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Topic
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Seminar
Readings
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Moderated
by
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Supplementary
Resources
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1.
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Sept 30
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Introduction
& basic
terminology
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(none)
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-
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2.
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Oct 7
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Semiotics
and enactive approach
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Christian
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3.
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Oct 14
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Meaning in animal world:
evolutionary view
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Thomas
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- Gärdenfors, P.: Cued
and
detached representations in animal cognition", Behavioural
Processes 36, 1996, pp. 263-273.
- Gärdenfors, P.: "Language
and the evolution of cognition", in Penser l'esprit: Des
sciences de la cognition à une philosophie cognitive, ed. by V. Rialle and D. Fisette,
Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, Grenoble, 1996, pp. 151-172.
- Gärdenfors,
P.: 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.
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4.
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Oct 21
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Biologically
motivated semantics
of distinguishing criteria
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- Šefránek, J.: 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.
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Martin K.
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- Takác(,
M.: mindmap for Šefránek, J.:
Cognition
without mental processes
- Takác(,
M.: 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.
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5.
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Oct 28
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Cognitive
semantics of Lakoff
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Martin K.
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- Šefránek, J.: slide notes
for Lakoff's Women, Fire and
Dangerous Things
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6.
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Nov 4
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Conceptual
spaces
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- Gärdenfors, P.: 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.
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Simon M.
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- Gärdenfors, P.: "Symbolic,
conceptual and subconceptual representations", pp. 255-270 in Human
and Machine Perception: Information Fusion, ed. by V. Cantoni, V. di Gesù, A. Setti
and D. Tegolo, Plenum Press, New York, 1997.
- Gärdenfors, P.: 1996i "Conceptual
spaces as a basis for cognitive semantics", in Philosophy and
Cognitive Science, ed. by A.
Clark et al., Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1996, pp. 159-180.
- Gärdenfors, P.:"Meanings as
conceptual structures", in Mindscapes: Philosophy, Science, and
the Mind, ed. by M. Carrier and
P. Machamer, Pittsburgh University Press, Pittsburgh, 1997, pp. 61-86.
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7.
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Nov 11
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Brain related semantics
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Thomas M.
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8.
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Nov 18
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Toward grammar |
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Simon M.
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9.
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Nov 25
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Meaning in Artificial Systems:
Basic Problems
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Christian P.
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- 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.: Connectionism
and Cognitive Architecture: A Critical Analysis. In: Connections
and symbols. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 3–71. 1988.
- Ziemke: Construction
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10.
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Dec 2
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Meaning in Artificial Systems:
Case Studies
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(one of):
- Wiedermann, J: HUGO:
A
Cognitive Architecture with an
Incorporated World Model,
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. pdf
- Brooks, R: Intelligence
without representation. Artificial
Intelligence, Vol.47, 1991,
pp.139-159.
- Cohen, P. R. (1998). Dynamic
Maps as Representations of Verbs. Proc. of the 13th
Biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
New York: John Wiley & Sons.
- <>survey of chatbots
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tba
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- Vernon D., Metta G., Sandini G.: 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.
- Takác(, M.: Construction
of Meanings in Living and Artificial Agents. dissertation thesis,
Comenius University, Bratislava, submitted in August 2007, Chapter 4.
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11.
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Dec 9
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Constructivist Approach
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tba
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- Paul R. Cohen, Tim Oates, Marc S. Atkin, and Carole R.
Beal. 1996. Building
a Baby. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of
the
Cognitive Science Society, L. Erlbaum, pp. 518-522.
- Takác(, 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.
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12.
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Dec 15
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Closing
& Exam
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Examination syllabus
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