[alife] Final CFP:: 2nd Intl. Symposium on Emergence & Evolution of Linguistic Communication (EELC 2005) [corrected]

Chrystopher L. Nehaniv C.L.Nehaniv at herts.ac.uk
Fri Oct 29 08:36:20 PDT 2004


Reminder:

Extended abstracts for EELC 2005 are due this weekend !

2nd Intl. Symposium on Emergence & Evolution of Linguistic Communication
http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~comqcln/EELC05.html

AISB Convention Website:
http://aisb2005.feis.herts.ac.uk/

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                           Call for Papers:

    Second International Symposium on the Emergence and Evolution of
                        Linguistic Communication
                              (EELC'05)

        at the AISB'05 Convention 12-15 April 2005, Hatfield UK

 Programme Chairs:

  Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth, UK (Chair)
  Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, University of Herfordshire, UK (Co-Chair)

 Invited Speakers:

  Luc Steels (AI Lab Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
  Alison Wray* (Cardiff University, Wales)
  W. Tecumseh Fitch* (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
   (* = pending confirmation)

Scope of the Symposium

  The renewed scientific interest in the emergence and evolution of
  linguistic communication has become one of the most important
  research issues in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science.
  The EELC'05 Symposium will focus on the latest empirical and
  modelling research on the evolutionary factors that affect the
  acquisition, self-organization and origins of linguistic
  communication systems and their precursors. This considers both
  language-specific abilities (e.g. speech, semantics and syntax)
  and other cognitive, sensorimotor and social abilities (e.g.
  category learning, action and embodiment, social networks). Key
  questions relate to the the emergence of: symbol grounding;
  deixis, gesture, and reference; predication; negation; syntactic
  categories; and compositionality; among other issues in the
  context of embodied, social interaction and evolution. This is a
  field characterized by a highly interdisciplinary and
  multi-methodological approach. It benefits from the contribution
  of researchers from wide ranging disciplines such as linguistics,
  psychology, neuroscience, anthropology and computer science. The
  methodologies adopted cover a wide range of approaches, from
  animal and human experiments, to brain studies and to
  computational and robotic modelling of linguistic behaviour. For
  example, computational models of language evolution and emergence
  involve artificial intelligence methods (e.g. artificial neural
  networks, evolutionary computation, rule-based systems) and
  techniques for the simulation of behaviour (artificial life,
  multi-agent systems, adaptive behaviour and robotics). The
  symposium will create the opportunity for the many of most
  influential in the field to present their latest research and to
  discuss the agenda for future studies.

  The use of computational models for simulating the evolution of
  language has been one of the main contributors to the renewed
  interest in language evolution research. In fact, up to 10 years
  ago, very few researchers were directly interested in the origins
  and evolution of language and publications on new language
  evolution studies were uncommon. This was partly the result of
  the famous ban in the 19th century by the Soci?t? Linguistique de
  Paris on research and publication on language origins to quell
  rampant, unfounded speculation on the topic. The development of
  the first language evolution models in the early 90s permitted to
  deal with some of the main difficulties in such a scientific
  field. Theories of language origins and evolution not only were
  difficult to test empirically but they tended to be stated in
  vague and general terms and were unable to generate detailed
  empirical predictions. This has been partially due to the problem
  of the objective scarcity of empirical evidence. It is this very
  problematic aspect of the study of language evolution which
  computer simulations can help us to overcome. Computer
  simulations are theories of the empirical phenomena that are
  simulated (Cangelosi & Parisi 2002). Simulations are a novel way
  to express theories in science. They are scientific theories
  expressed as computer programs. The program incorporates a set of
  hypotheses on the causes, mechanisms, and processes underlying
  the simulated phenomena and, when the program runs in the
  computer, the results of the simulations are the empirical
  predictions derived from the theory incorporated in the
  simulation. All this contributes to the development of a new
  approach to the study of the origins and evolution of language.

 The EELC Symposium Series

  Following on from the success of the First International Workshop
  on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication in
  Japan 2004, and the Evolution of Language conferences. This
  symposium will be held 14-15 April 2005 at the University of
  Hertfordshire, de Havilland Campus, Hatfield, just outside
  London. It will be part of the AISB-2005 convention 12-15 April
  2005, whose overall theme is "Social Intelligence and Interaction
  in Animals, Robots and Agents". EELC'04 was the First
  International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of
  Linguistic Communication (EELC), held in Kanazawa (Japan) in
  May/June 2004 under the auspices of the Japanese Society for
  Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), the Japanese counterpart of AISB,
  at their 2004 Convention. The 2nd EELC Symposium at AISB05 in the
  U.K. aims to continue the philosophy of this meeting and its
  international tradition. This is particularly relevant because
  both British and Japanese scientists have played a major role on
  the development of computational models of language evolution. In
  addition, the location of the workshop within the AISB annual
  meeting will permit a better exchange with other researchers
  working in the field of artificial intelligence and simulation of
  behaviour, both those working in Britain and those will come from
  abroad to attend the meeting.

 Aims of the Symposium

    * To provide an common interdisciplinary forum for researchers
      of the emergence and evolution of language
    * To discuss and disseminate the latest research on
      theoretical, empirical and modeling investigations of the
      evolution of linguistic communication and its precursors
    * To set the agenda for future research and identify the most
      promising theoretical and methodological issues in the area

 Symposium Structure

  The symposium is expected to last for 2 days, 14-15 April but may
  be extended depending on number and quality of submissions. It
  will include several keynote speakers presentations for a total
  of about 20 talks, with time for discussion of each paper, panel
  and open discussions. The actual number of presentations and
  duration will depend on the number and quality of submissions.

 Submissions

  Extended abstracts, three to four A4 pages in length (including
  author affiliations, references etc) should be submitted
  electronically (PDF, Postscript or ASCII format) to
  A.Cangelosi at plymouth.ac.uk. All submissions will be acknowledged
  and refereed by the international scientific programme committee.

 Publication

  All accepted papers will be published as an AISB proceedings
  volume dedicated to the symposium with an ISBN number. [The
  length of final papers will likely be about 8 pages in two-column
  AISB format. We will be putting information about the common
  AISB'05 publication style here as soon as it is available].
  Authors of selected papers will also invited to submit expanded
  versions of their articles to an edited post-proceedings
  volume/journal to be published by a well-known scientific
  publisher.

 Important Dates

  Extended abstracts of papers describing original work are now
  invited in any research area within the scope of the symposium.
  The schedule for submissions and revisions is as follows:

    * Deadline for submissions: 31 October 2004
    * Notification deadline: 22 November 2004
    * Camera ready copies of full papers: 17 December 2004
    * AISB Convention: 12-15 April 2004

International Scientific Programme Committee

    * Takaya Arita (University of Nagoya, Japan)
    * Jean Baillie (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
    * Aude Billard (EPFL, Switzerland)
    * Angelo Cangelosi (University of Plymouth, UK)
    * Takashi Hashimoto (JAIST, Japan)
    * Koiti Hasida (AIST, Japan)
    * Jim Hurford (University of Edinburgh, UK)
    * Takashi Ikegami (University of Tokyo, Japan)
    * Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh, UK)
    * Caroline Lyon (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
    * Chrystopher Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
    * Stefano Nolfi (ISTC, National Research Council, Italy)
    * Kazuo Okanoya (University of Chiba, Japan)
    * Tetsuo Ono (Future University Hakodate, Japan)
    * Domenico Parisi (ISTC, National Research Council, Italy)
    * Akito Sakurai (Keio University, Japan)
    * Luc Steels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
    * Satoshi Tojo (JAIST, Japan)

 Organizing Committee

    * Angelo Cangelosi (University of Plymouth), Symposium Chair
    * Chrystopher Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire), Symposium
      Co-Chair
    * Caroline Lyon (University of Hertfordshire), Local Organizing
      Committee Chair
    * Jean Baillie (University of Hertfordshire), Local Organizer
    * Gianluca Massera (University of Plymouth), Local Organizer

 Selected References:

   1. Simulating the Evolution of Language, Angelo Cangelosi & D.
      Parisi (Eds.), London: Springer Verlag, 2002. [ISBN:
      1852334282]
   2. C. L. Nehaniv, "The Making of Meaning in Societies: Semiotic
      & Information-Theoretic Background to the Evolution of
      Communication", Proc. AISB Symposium: Starting from Society -
      the application of social analogies to computational systems,
      19-20 April 2000, Society for the Study of Artificial
      Intelligence and Adaptive Behaviour, pp. 73-84, 2000. [ISBN:
      1 902956 13 8] First International Workshop on the Emergence
      and Evolution of Linguistic Communication (EELC 2004), 31
      May-1 June 2004, Kanazawa, Japan, Japanese Society for
      Artificial Intelligence, 2004. [ISBN: 4-915905-14-4
      C3004(JSAI)]
   3. Evolution of Language, special issue of Science, 27 February
      2004, Volume 303 Number 5662, 27 February 2004.
   4. The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and
      the Origins of Linguistic Form, Chris Knight, Michael
      Studdert-Kennedy, & James Hurford (Eds.) Cambridge University
      Press, 2000. [ISBN: 0521786967]
   5. Language Evolution (Studies in the Evolution of Language)
      Morten H. Christiansen & Simon Kirby (Eds.) Oxford University
      Press, 2003. [ISBN: 0199244847]
   6. The Transition to Language : International Conference on the
      Evolution of Language 2000, Alison Wray (Ed.), Oxford
      University Press, 2002. [ISBN: 0199250669]
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  Symposium Webpage:
  http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~nehaniv/EELC05.html

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Dr. Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
Professor of Mathematical & Evolutionary Computer Sciences

Adaptive Systems & Algorithms Research Groups
School of Computer Science
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane
Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB
United Kingdom
e-mail: C.L.Nehaniv at herts.ac.uk
phone:  +44-1707-284-470
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Director, EPSRC Network on Evolvability in Biological & Software Systems
Associate Editor, BioSystems
Associate Editor, Interaction Studies




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