Connectionist Modelling of Quantifiers

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PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Publications

* Coventry K.R., Cangelosi A., Newstead S., Bacon A., Rajapakse R. (2005), Grounding natural language quantifiers in visual attention. Proceedings of the XXVII Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa. (pdf file)

* Rajapakse R.K., Cangelosi A., Coventry K.R, Newstead S., Bacon A. 2005), Connectionist modeling of linguistic quantifiers. In W. Duch, J. Kacprzyk, E. Oja & S. Zadrozny (Eds.) Artificial Neural Networks: Formal Models and Their Applications - ICANN 2005. 15th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (Part II) (LNCS 3697).Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 679-684 (pdf file)

* Rajapakse R.K., Cangelosi A., Coventry K., Newstead S. and Bacon A. (2005). Grounding linguistic quantifiers in perception: Experiments on numerosity judgments. Z. Vetulani (ed.), Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics: 2nd Language & Technology Conference Proceedings. pp. 53-57, Poznañ, Poland (pdf file)

* Coventry, K. R., Cangelosi, A., Rajapakse, R., Bacon, A., Newstead, S., Joyce, D. & Richards, L. V. (2005). Spatial prepositions and vague quantifiers: Implementing the functional geometric framework. In C. Freksa, B. Knauff & B. Krieg-Bruckner, B. Nebel & T. Barkowsky (Eds.), Spatial Cognition, Volume IV. Reasoning, Action and Interaction (LNAI 3343), pp 98-110. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. Best paper at the Spatial Cognition 2004 conference.

* Cangelosi A., Coventry K.R., Rajapakse R., Bacon A. & Newstead S.N. (2005), Grounding language in perception: A connectionist model of spatial terms and vague quantifiers. In A. Cangelosi A., G. Bugmann & R. Borisyuk (Eds.), Modelling Language, Cognition and Action: Proceedings of the 9th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 47-56 (pdf file)

Newstead, S.E. (2003). Can natural language semantics explain syllogistic reasoning? Cognition, 90, 193-199.

Cangelosi A. (2005). Symbol grounding in connectionist and adaptive agent models. In S.B. Cooper, B. Lowe, L. Torenvliet (eds.), New Computational Paradigms: Proceedings of the First Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2005 (LNCS 3526), pp. 69-74, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

Cangelosi A. (2005), Modeling Language, Cognition and Action: From connectionist simulations to embodied neural cognitive systems. In A. Cangelosi A., G. Bugmann & R. Borisyuk (Eds.), Modelling Language, Cognition and Action: Proceedings of the 9th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. Singapore: World Scientific.

Cangelosi A., G. Bugmann & R. Borisyuk (Eds.) (2005), Modelling Language, Cognition and Action: Proceedings of the 9th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. Singapore: World Scientific.

Cangelosi A. (2005). The emergence of language: Neural and adaptive agent models. Connection Science, 17(3-4), 185-190 (guest editor of Special Issue)

Cangelosi (2005). Grounding symbols in perceptual and sensorimotor categories: Connectionist and embodied approaches. In H. Cohen & C. Lefebvre (Eds), Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science, Elsevier.

Vann Bugmann, D., Coventry, K.R., Newstead, S.E. (in press). Contextual Cues and the Retrieval of Distance from Cognitive Maps. Memory & Cognition

Bacon, A.M., Handley, S.J. & Newstead, S.E. (2003). Individual differences in strategies for syllogistic reasoning. Thinking and Reasoning, 9, 133-168.

Coventry, K. R. &  Frias-Lindqvist, A. M. (in press). The influence of movement, alignment, and orientation on the comprehension of spatial p-positions in English and Finnish. Spatial Cognition and Computation.

Burigo, M. & Coventry, K. R. (2005). Reference frame conflict in assigning direction to space. In C. Freksa, M. Knauff, B. Krieg-Bruckner & B. Nebel, (Eds.), Spatial Cognition, Volume IV. Reasoning, action and interaction, pp 111-123. Lecture notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag.

Coventry, K. R. & Garrod, S. C. (2005). Spatial prepositions and the functional geometric framework. Towards a classification of extra-geometric influences. In L. A. Carlson & E. van der Zee (Eds.), Functional features in language and space: Insights from perception, categorization and development, pp 149-162.  Oxford University Press.

Burigo, M. & Coventry, K. R. (2004). Spatial language and reference frame assignment: The role of the located object. In K, D. Forbus, D. Gentner, & T. Regier (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp 168-173. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ.

Vann Bugmann, D. & Coventry, K. K. (2004). A method for studying cognitive distance. In K, D. Forbus, D. Gentner, & T. Regier (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp 1381-1386. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ.

Papers in submission/preparation

Coventry K.R., Cangelosi A., Newstead S. et al. (in preparation), The role of context in the use of vague linguistic quantifiers. Cognitive Psychology

Conference and Seminar Presentations

Cangelosi A., Keynote Speaker presentation at “KIMAS05: International Conference Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems”, Boston, 20/4/2005

Cangelosi A., “Grounding Language into Perception: A Connectionist Model of Spatial Terms and Vague Quantifiers”, Seminar at Harvard University (Cognitive Neuroscience Lab), 21/4/2005

Cangelosi A., “The Grounding of Language in Connectionist and Robotic Agents”, Seminar at University of Eastern Piedmont (Italy), 24/05/2005

Cangelosi A., “Neural Network Models of Language, Perception and Action”, invited talk at Summer School on Neural Network Models of Embodied Cognition, 19/8/2005

Cangelosi A., “Artificial Intelligence: Language in Agents and Robots”, lecture at University of Birmingham, 2/11/2005

Cangelosi A., “The Construction of Linguistic Structure:  Embodiment, Cognition and Society”, Seminar at National Research Council (Rome), 2/2/2005

Newstead, S.E. “Understanding quantifiers”. Invited address given to the Centre for Human Communication Workshop on Language, Reasoning and Development, University College London, November 2005.

Coventry K.R. (2005). Invited talk. Scandinavian Linguistics Conference, Trondheim, Norway, 6/2005

Coventry K.R. (2005). Invited seminar entitled “Language, Space and Action”, Speech and Language Sciences, Newcastle University. 11/2005

Coventry K.R. (2005). Invited seminar entitled “Language, Space and Action”, School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences, Northumbria University. 12/2005

Coventry K.R. (2006). Invited seminar entitled “Talking about quantities in space”, SFB/TR8 Colloquium (Transregional Collaborative Research Centre on Spatial Cognition), Universität Bremen, Germany. 3/2006

Coventry K.R. (2005). Invited seminar entitled “Language, Space and Action”, Hanse-Wissenshcaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany. 3/2006