An ad hoc meeting to explore interest in establishing a Special Interest Group
(SIG) focused on research at the intersection of language processing and cognitive
architectures is proposed to occur on Friday, July 30th at lunch during ICCM
2004. The tentative topic for the SIG is “Language Processing
within Cognitive Architectures”. Depending on the interests of those
who attend the meeting, this topic may be modified.
From the perspective of language processing, the basic interest is in the
development of language processing systems that are psychologically motivated
and that
avoid adopting computational techniques that have no psychological foundation.
From
the perspective of cognitive architectures, the basic interest is in demonstrating
that the cognitive architectures provide the architectural components needed
for the development of language processing systems. To some extent, it is
expected that the vetting of cognitive architectures will entail the development
of
larger language processing systems than is currently typical in the cognitive
modeling
community. Further, the prospects for the development of language processing
systems that can be used in other cognitive modeling research is also of
interest. For example, the development of a language processing system
capable of reading
experiment instructions and allowing a cognitive model to perform an experiment
without building in such capabilities. More generally, the capability of
a cognitive model to learn by reading text or hearing spoken input is of
interest.
And the
development of language-enabled software agents that exhibit human-like behavior
(including language behavior) is also of interest.
Examples of existing research efforts that motivate the SIG include:
Jerry Ball (Jerry.Ball@mesa.afmc.af.mil)
Bruno Emond (bruno.emond@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
Kevin Gluck (Kevin.Gluck@mesa.afmc.af.mil)
Deryle Lonsdale (lonz@byu.edu)