Corpora: Workshop on Analogy

Cristiano Castelfranchi (cris@pscs2.irmkant.rm.cnr.it)
Wed, 4 Feb 1998 18:03:04 +0100

Workshop
Advances in Analogy Research:
Integration of Theory and Data from the Cognitive, Computational, and
Neural Sciences
Sofia, July 17-20, 1998

Aims:
This workshop is intended to stimulate the researchers in the field of
analogy to cooperate more intensively and to integrate various approaches
and data in their study. Its aim is to advance our understanding of the
cognitive mechanisms of analogy-making, i.e. how people notice/perceive
analogies, how they retrieve analogs from memory or how they construct
them, how they map and transfer knowledge from one domain to another, how
they combine knowledge from multiple analogs or how they combine analogy
with rule-based reasoning, how they generalize and learn from the analogies
made, how they use analogies for problem solving, explanation,
argumentation, creation. What is the place of analogy among the various
cognitive processes, such as perception, thinking, memory, learning, etc.
What is the role of analogy in human development? Which are the brain
structures involved in analogy-making processes? What kind of deficits do
brain-damaged patients exhibit?

This workshop will be highly interdisciplinary and will make a serious
attempt to integrate the knowledge researchers have accumulated on
analogy-making in various domains: Artificial Intelligence/Computational
Modeling, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Neuropsychology,
Philosophy, Cognitive Linguistics, as well as various applications in
Education, Legal and Political Reasoning, etc. A serious attempt will be
made to integrate all the positive results obtained so far in theories of
analogy-making, computational modeling, and experimental work.

The workshop participants will participate in numerous formal and informal
discussions which we hope will lead to systematization of the knowledge in
the field, formulating established facts, open issues, and ideas for new
approaches.

Format of the workshop
The workshop will consist of key talks (45 min) (see the list of key
talks), short papers (20 min), poster presentations, round table thematic
discussions, working group sessions, informal discussions, concluding
discussions on ideas for future work and cooperative projects.

Pre-Proceedings of the workshop (containing all the accepted papers) will
be published in advance and distributed to the participants, so that we can
focus on discussions and joint work at the workshop.

Submission instructions
Paper and poster submissions should be made both electronically (in RTF
format) and in hard copy (A4 or US letter (11" x 8.5") paper format)
following these instructions. Papers should be no more than 8 pages long,
poster abstracts - one page. The text should be formatted in two columns
with an overall width of 14 cm and length of 20 cm, with 0.7 cm between the
columns. Use 10 point Times Roman with 11 point vertical spacing, unless
otherwise specified. The title should be 14 point, bold, centered, 0.5 cm
below the top margin. Authors' names should be in 11 point, bold, and
centered; authors' affiliation, postal address, and e-mail address should
be in ordinary 10 point, centered. First-level headings should be 12 point,
bold, initial caps, and centered. Second-level headings should be 11 point,
initial caps, bold, and flush left. Third-level headings should be 10
point, bold, initial caps, and flush left. Use standard APA citation
format, e.g. (McClelland & Rumelhart, 1981).

Send your submissions electronically to analogy@cogs.nbu.acad.bg
and my regular mail to:
Boicho Kokinov - Analogy'98
Cognitive Science Department
New Bulgarian University
21, Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1635, Bulgaria

Timetable

Deadline for workshop registration - March 1st, 1998
Deadline for submission of papers - March 1st, 1998
Deadline for poster abstracts - March 20th, 1998
Notification of Acceptance - April 15th, 1998
Invited participants' deadline for papers - June 1st, 1998
Publication of the Workshop Proceedings - June 30th, 1998
Workshop - July 17-20, 1998, (arrival 16th, departure 21st)

Participants and Funding

Participation in the workshop is mainly by invitation to ensure high
quality and balance of representatives of various schools of thought, of
various disciplines, of various countries and continents. The organizers
hope that all these schools and geographic regions will be represented. The
following list of invitees is provisional and open for additions. The
workshop is, however, open to other participants as well, up to the upper
limit of 50 participants.

The organizers are looking for some funding which would allow us to support
some of the participants for their participation in the workshop. However,
as this is still uncertain, we would like to kindly ask the potential
participants to look for their own funding sources and to try to ensure
their participation in advance.

Co-events

The workshop will take place during the 5th International Summer School in
Cognitive Science (July 13-25, 1998) which will offer an opportunity to
have external critics and advisors from well known researchers working in
other areas of cognitive science.

Location

Sofia is an old city first established by the Thracians about 4000BC. There
are still some ruins from the old Roman time city. The National History
Museum holds some fascinating gold treasures from Thracian times. There is
a small church with frescos from the 12th century painted in a realistic
Renaissance style a long time before the Renaissance in Europe started.
Not very far from Sofia is the beautiful Rila monastery as well as some old
towns like Plovdiv (with an old town part and a Roman amphitheater) and
Koprivstitza. You may also want to combine your trip with a holyday at the
Black Sea side.

Organizing Committee:

Dedre Gentner (Northwestern Univ., USA) gentner@nwu.edu - Co-Director
Keith Holyoak (Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA)
holyoak@lifesci.ucla.edu edu - Co-Director
Boicho Kokinov (New Bunlgarian Univ., Bulgaria) kokinov@cogs.nbu.acad.bg
edu - Co-Director
Robert French (Univ. of Liege, Belgium) rfrench@ulg.ac.be
Erica Melis (Univ. of Saarland, Germany) melis@cs.uni-sb.de

List of key talks

Umberto Eco - (not confirmed yet)
Douglas Hofstadter - Analogy as the Core of Cognition
Keith Holyoak - The Place of Analogy in a Physical Symbol System
Dedre Gentner - Comparison and Cognition
Gilles Fauconnier - Analogy and Conceptual Integration
Jaime Carbonell - Analogy in Problem Solving, from the Routine to the Creative
Boicho Kokinov - Analogy is like Cognition: Complex, Emergent,
Context-Sensitive
Mark Keane - Why Conceptual Combination is Seldom Analogy
David Premack - Analogies in Chimpanzees
Andy Meltzoff - The Origins and Early Development of Analogy in the
Preverbal Period
Usha Goswami - Analogical Reasoning in Children
Graeme Halford - The Problem of Structural Complexity in Cognitive
Processes: A Metric Based on Representational Rank
Ken Forbus - Qualitative Mental Models: Simulations or Memories?
Paul Thagard - Emotional Analogies
James Hampton - Analogy is like categorization: thoughts on the role of
conceptual structure in analogical reasoning
Adam Biela - Analogical Resoning as a Base for Structuring Cognitive
Schemata in New Situations: A Case of Economic Transformation in
Post-Communist Countries

List of invited participants

Ron Ferguson (Northwestern University, USA) ferguson@ils.nwu.edu
Ken Kurtz (Northwestern University, USA) kjk@nwu.edu
Arthur Markman (Columbia University, USA) markman@paradox.psych.columbia.edu
John Hummel (UCLA, USA) jhummel@lifesci.ucla.edu
Richard Catrambone (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) rc7@prism.gatech.edu
Charles Wharton (National Institutes of Health, USA) wharton@codon.nih.gov
Barbara Spellman (U. of Virginia, USA) spellman@psyvax.psy.utexas.edu
Laura Novick (Vanderbilt University, USA) novicklr@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
Mary Jo Rattermann (Hampshire, USA) mratter1@swarthmore.edu
Judy DeLoache (U. of Illinois, USA) jdeloach@[s.psych.]uiuc.edu
Manuela Veloso(CMU, USA) mmv@cs.cmu.edu
David Leake (Indiana University, USA) leake@cs.indiana.edu
Robert Goldstone (Indiana University, USA) rgoldsto@ucs.indiana.edu
Jim Marshall (Indiana University, USA) marshall@cogsci.indiana.edu
Brian Bowdle (Indiana University, USA) bbowdle@indiana.edu
Melanie Mitchell (Santa Fe Institute, USA) mm@santafe.edu
Miriam Bassok (U. of Washington, USA) mbassok@u.washington.edu
Roger Thompson (Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, USA)
r_thompson@acad.fandm.edu
Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Tech, USA) nancyn@cc.gatech.edu
John Clement (University of Massachusets, MA, USA) jclement@educ.umass.edu
Eve Sweetser (UC Berkeley, USA) sweetser@cogsci.berkeley.edu
Adele Goldberg (UCSD, USA) aegoldberg@ucsd.edu
Lokendra Shastri (UC Berkeley, USA) schastri@icsi.berkeley.edu
Thomas Ward (Texas A&M University, USA) tbw@psyc.tamu.edu
Ronald Finke (Texas A&M University, USA) raf@psyc.tamu.edu
Jim Herriot (Sun, USA) Jim.Herriot@Eng.Sun.COM
Cameron Shelley (U. of Waterloo, Canada) cpshelle@watarts.uwaterloo.ca
Bipin Indurkhya (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan)
bipin@cc.tuat.ac.jp
Hiroaki Suzuki (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan) susan@ri.aoyama.ac.jp
Tony Plate (Victoria U of Wellington, New Zealand) Tony.Plate@MCS.VUW.AC.NZ
Pentti Kanerva (SICS, Sweden) kanerva@sics.se
Robert French (University of Liege, Belgium) rfrench@ulg.ac.be
John A Barnden (University of Birmingham, UK) <J.A.Barnden@cs.bham.ac.uk>
Michael Ramscar (University of Edinburgh, UK) Michael@aisb.ed.ac.uk
Bruce Burns (U. of Potsdam, Germany) burns@persius.rz.uni-potsdam.de
Friedrich Wilkening ( U. of Tuebingen, Germany)
wilk@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de

friedrich.wilkening@uni-tuebingen.de
Michael Waldmann (Max-Planck Institute of Psychological Research in Munich,
Germany) waldmann@mpipf-muenchen.mpg.de
Meredith Gattis (Max-Planck Institute of Psychological Research in Munich,
Germany) gattis@mpipf-muenchen.mpg.de
Erica Melis (Univ. of Saarland, Germany) melis@cs.uni-sb.de
Cristina Cacciari (University of Bologna, Italy) cacciari@psibo.unibo.it
Stella Vosniadou (University of Athens, Greece) svosniad@atlas.uoa.ariadne-t.gr
Merry Bullock (University of Vilnus, Estonia) mxb.apa@email.apa.org,
merry@vm.ee
Maciej Haman (University of Warsaw, Poland) MEH@sci.psych.uw.edu.pl
Dan Simon (Haifa University, Israel) dsimon@research.haifa.ac.il