CARLA 2022: Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application 2022 Humboldt University of Berlin Berlin, Germany, August 22-24, 2022 |
Conference website | https://conceptresearch.github.io/CARLA/carla_workshop/carla_2022 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=carla2022 |
Abstract registration deadline | May 22, 2022 |
Submission deadline | May 22, 2022 |
Contact Person: Stephanie Rotter rotterst@hu-berlin.de
Web Site: https://conceptresearch.github.io/CARLA/carla_workshop/carla_2022
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics
Meeting Description:The first international workshop “Concepts in Action: Representation,Learning, and Application” took place at the Institute of Cognitive Science atOsnabrück University in 2018, followed by two virtual events as part of theBolzano Summer of Knowledge (BOSK) in 2020 and 2021. Currently, we areorganizing a fourth (potentially hybrid) workshop “Concepts in Action:Representation, Learning, and Application” (CARLA) in 2022. In addition to ageneral main session, CARLA 2022 will feature a special session on conceptsand register, in relation to the Collaborative Research Center CRC1412“Register” at the Humboldt University of Berlin.Venue: Dorotheenstr. 24, 10117 Berlin, Room 1.101/1.102/1.103Humboldt University of Berlin, GermanyInvited Speakers:Special session: (22. August)Asif Agha, University of PennsylvaniaPia Knoeferle, Humboldt University of BerlinMain session: (23-24. August)Roberto G. de Almeida, Concordia UniversityRegine Eckardt, University of KonstanzMartha Lewis, University of BristolCall for Abstracts:“Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application” (CARLA) is aninternational workshop aimed at fostering interdisciplinary exchange aboutresearch on concepts. It invites contributions from all fields related tocognitive science, including (but not limited to) linguistics, artificialintelligence, psychology, philosophy, logic, computer science.The workshop is open for research on any aspect of concepts, but there arethree overarching topics that are of special interest with the following (notexhaustive) list of exemplary subtopics:Representation: How can we formally describe and model concepts?Learning: Where do concepts come from and how are they acquired?Application: How are concepts used in cognitive tasks? This workshop aims to provide an excellent opportunity to present and discussongoing research on concepts, both from theoretical/formal andapplied/experimental viewpoints. We invite concept researchers from allrelated fields to submit abstracts to the workshop.
Topics of the special session:In addition to the general main session on concepts, we would like to drawattention to our special session from researchers working at the interfacesbetween linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, and sociology. Thisspecial session will focus on concepts and registers, in relation to theCRC1412 “Register”. Registers as socially recurring intra-individual (andinter-individual) variation represent concepts influenced by situational andfunctional settings, such as the formality of the context of use and socialrelation of interlocutors. This special session is open to research on anyaspects of concepts in relation to registers, and in particular, to researchon register sensitivity of conceptual (lexical semantic and pragmatic)knowledge. Subtopics include but are not restricted to: (1) Documentation,description, and formal analyses of register-sensitivity of concepts; (2)Semantics and pragmatics of socially-rich concepts such as “gender”(biological, social, psychological) and “social status”; (3) Formaldefinitions and (e.g. probabilistic) analyses of theoretical concepts andnotions in register research, such as “formality”; (4) Empiricalinvestigations of these matters using corpus-linguistic, fieldwork,computational or experimental methods.
Submission and Publication:We invite the submission of abstracts via EasyChair:https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=carla2022
The abstracts should use two to three pages (including references) and shouldbe uploaded as pdf based on the following template (LaTeX or Word) which isbased on Springer’s LNCS style, available on our website.Depending on the number and quality of the received submissions, selectedcontributions may be published after the workshop. For planning reasons,please indicate during the submission procedure whether you are interested ina publication in the form of conference proceedings.
Program Committee:Local Organizers:Mingya Liu & Stephanie Rotter, Department of English and American Studies,Humboldt University of Berlin
External Organizers:Caitlyn Antal, Department of Psychology, McGill UniversityLucas Bechberger, Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrück UniversityViviana Haase, Institute for Philosophy II, Ruhr University BochumNicolás Araneda Hinrichs, Institute for Applied Linguistics and Translatology,University Leipzig & Laboratory for Psycholinguistics, University ConcepciónStefan Schneider, Faculty of Computer Science, Otto von Guericke UniversityMagdeburgCorina Strößner, Emmy Noether Group “From perception to belief and backagain”, Ruhr University BochumPaola Vernillo, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures,Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna