Nexing International Seminar on
Natural Language and Reasoning
Coimbra, 2002, February 20
University of Coimbra
Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences
NEXING is a multi-disciplinary
project fostering the convergence of methods, results and expertise from
Informatics, Applied Logic, Cognitive Psychology and Formal Linguistics
with respect to the processing of natural language and negation. Under the scope
of the project activities, an international seminar is going to take place
at the Faculty of Psychology
and Education Sciences of the University
of Coimbra.
Aims
The aim of this seminar is twofold: provide an occasion
for cooperative discussion and interaction between researchers from different
areas with confluent research interests; and provide an audience of cognitive
science students with some exposure to key aspects of scientific topics and
practice usually not addressed in the classroom. The presentations are planned
to have an introductory part with an overview of the topic being addressed, followed by the discussion of recent results on that topic
by the speaker, many of them obtained in the NEXING project.
Invited Speakers
Peter Yule (University of London)
Cristina Quelhas (ISPA-Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Lisbon)
Organizers
José Leitão (Univ. of Coimbra, Fac. of Psychology,
IPCDVS-Institute
for Cognitive Psychology)
António Branco (Univ. of Lisbon, Dep. of Informatics,
LabMAC-Laboratory of Computational Models and Architectures)
Program
9:30 José Leitão (Univ. of Coimbra, IPCDVS):
Competence and Performance in Syllogistic Reasoning
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 António Branco (Univ. of Lisbon, Dep. of Informatics):
Cognitive and Computational Models of Anaphora
11:45 Coffee break
12:00 Pedro Santos (Univ. of Algarve, Faculty of Human Sciences):
The Semantics of Counterfactuals
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Cristina Quelhas (ISPA):
Mental Models and Conditional Reasoning
16:30 Coffee break
17:00 Peter Yule (Univ. of London):
Logic and Human Syllogistic Reasoning
18:30 End
Participation
Attendance of the seminar is free of charge and open to everyone.
Location
Faculdade de Psicologia de Coimbra
Rua do Colégio Novo, 3000 Coimbra
Sala do Anexo (morning)
Sala 4.1 (afternoon)
Funding
The NEXING project is funded by FCT under the contract FCT/SAPIENS99/34076/99