CARLA 2021: Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application Bolzano, Italy, September 16-17, 2021 |
Conference website | https://www.conceptuccino.uni-osnabrueck.de/carla_workshop/carla_2021.html |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=carla2021 |
Submission deadline | May 26, 2021 |
Call for Abstracts
"Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application" (CARLA) is an international workshop aimed at fostering interdisciplinary exchange about research on concepts. It invites contributions from all fields related to cognitive science, including (but not limited to) linguistics, artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, logic, and computer science.
The workshop is open for research on any aspect of concepts, but there are three overarching topics that are of special interest with the following (not exhaustive) list of exemplary subtopics:
- Representation: How can we formally describe and model concepts?
- Conceptual Spaces, Conceptual Domains, Frames
- Lexical Semantics and Pragmatics
- Grounded Cognition, Embodiment, 4E Cognition
- Learning: Where do concepts come from and how are they acquired?
- Evolution of Concepts
- Cross-Cultural and Social Aspects of Concepts
- Developmental Psychology of Concepts
- Application: How are concepts used in cognitive tasks?
- Event Cognition
- Artificial Agents
- Concept Blending, Metaphors, Creativity
Submission Guidelines
The abstracts should use two to three pages (including references) and should be uploaded as pdf based on the following template (LaTeX or Word) which is based on Springer’s LNCS style: Download Template
Committee
- Lucas Bechberger, Osnabrück University
- Viviana Haase, Ruhr University Bochum
- Nicolás Araneda Hinrichs, University Leipzig & University Concepción
- Mingya Liu, Humboldt University of Berlin
- Alessandro Panunzi, University of Florence
- Stefan Schneider, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
- Corina Strößner, Ruhr University Bochum
- Paola Vernillo, University of Florence