From thalverson at gmail.com Tue Feb 1 17:09:00 2011 From: thalverson at gmail.com (Tim Halverson) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 15:09:00 -0700 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Motor error in manual module? Message-ID: <51319985-1741-467F-8ED4-6A981D10FCDF@gmail.com> Hello all, Does anyone know of any efforts to model keyboard typos resulting from error in manual motor movements in ACT-R? In a set of data I am currently modeling, participants are punching the wrong key in about 3% of the trials, and in the majority of these cases they are (presumably) accidentally punching an adjacent key. I do not need a high-fidelity account of such errors, but I do not want to ignore these errors. Any pointers to previous ACT-R models, or other models, that account for such errors would be appreciated. Thanks, Tim Halverson From grayw at rpi.edu Tue Feb 1 18:25:42 2011 From: grayw at rpi.edu (Wayne Gray) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:25:42 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Motor error in manual module? In-Reply-To: <51319985-1741-467F-8ED4-6A981D10FCDF@gmail.com> References: <51319985-1741-467F-8ED4-6A981D10FCDF@gmail.com> Message-ID: Tim, You do know Bonnie's thesis work? John, B. E. (1996). TYPIST: A theory of performance in skilled typing. Human-Computer Interaction, 11(4), 321?355. It is not an ACTR paper but, as discussed a few months ago, we do not have an ACTR model that does typing and without such a model it would be hard to model errors. Good luck Wayne On Feb 1, 2011, at 17:09, Tim Halverson wrote: > Hello all, > > Does anyone know of any efforts to model keyboard typos resulting from error in manual motor movements in ACT-R? > > In a set of data I am currently modeling, participants are punching the wrong key in about 3% of the trials, and in the majority of these cases they are (presumably) accidentally punching an adjacent key. I do not need a high-fidelity account of such errors, but I do not want to ignore these errors. Any pointers to previous ACT-R models, or other models, that account for such errors would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Tim Halverson > _______________________________________________ > ACT-R-users mailing list > ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users From marun2 at gmail.com Tue Feb 1 23:42:17 2011 From: marun2 at gmail.com (Mohan Arun L) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 10:12:17 +0530 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Algorithms Message-ID: I would be interested if someone can let me know details about any standard, documented algorithms behind sequencing and rearranging external stimuli in realtime based on a subject's observed behavior. The stimuli may be visual, auditory or kinesthetic but everything needs to be coordinated. I am someone who has experienced websites rearranging their wares in real time based on my observed behavior - Mohan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It was CORE, not ACT-R, but it might help you. Knight, A., Pyrzak, G., & Green, C. (2007). When two methods are better than one: Combining user study with cognitive modeling. In M.B. Rosson and D.J. Gilmore (Eds.): Extended Abstracts of the 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 2007, (pp. 1783-1788). San Jose, CA: ACM. http://hci.arc.nasa.gov/pages/KnightPyrzak&Green07_CHI.pdf On 2/1/11 6:25 PM, Wayne Gray wrote: > Tim, > > You do know Bonnie's thesis work? > > John, B. E. (1996). TYPIST: A theory of performance in skilled typing. Human-Computer Interaction, 11(4), 321?355. > > It is not an ACTR paper but, as discussed a few months ago, we do not have an ACTR model that does typing and without such a model it would be hard to model errors. > > Good luck > > Wayne > > > On Feb 1, 2011, at 17:09, Tim Halverson wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Does anyone know of any efforts to model keyboard typos resulting from error in manual motor movements in ACT-R? >> >> In a set of data I am currently modeling, participants are punching the wrong key in about 3% of the trials, and in the majority of these cases they are (presumably) accidentally punching an adjacent key. I do not need a high-fidelity account of such errors, but I do not want to ignore these errors. Any pointers to previous ACT-R models, or other models, that account for such errors would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> Tim Halverson >> _______________________________________________ >> ACT-R-users mailing list >> ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu >> http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users > > > _______________________________________________ > ACT-R-users mailing list > ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users > From troy.kelley at us.army.mil Mon Feb 7 16:50:03 2011 From: troy.kelley at us.army.mil (Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED)) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 16:50:03 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] SS-RICS tutorial (UNCLASSIFIED) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC90FE33FA@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE I thought some ACT-R folks might be interested in this. We are conducting an SS-RICS tutorial at BRIMS 2011. http://brimsconference.org/ SS-RICS is the Symbolic and Sub-symbolic Robotic Intelligence Control System. It is a robotics control system largely based on ACT-R, but with the addition of neural networks and other statistical techniques for processing perceptual data. Currently SS-RICS will control SRV-1 robots http://www.surveyor.com/SRV_info.html And Pioneer robots http://www.mobilerobots.com/researchrobots/researchrobots/pioneerp3dx.aspx As part of the tutorial you will get a copy of SS-RICS. BRIMS will be at Sundance, Utah, so bring your skis! Troy D. Kelley RDRL-HRS-E Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED) U.S. Army Research Laboratory Aberdeen, MD 21005 Phone: 410-278-5869 Fax: 410-278-9523 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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These statistics / data / examples include but are not limited to - the number of ACT-R publications in A-journals (Science, Psych Review, ...), including the total number of publications - the number of ACT-R research groups outside of CMU - the total number of ACT-R researchers and ACT-R pubs - recent methodological advances (e.g., fMRI) - the amount of grant money / funding awarded to ACT-R researchers - real world projects and/or cooperation with the military, companies, etc - the budgets and/or amount of such cooperations - succesful real world applications (like the intelligent tutor) - industry or military labs that employ ACT-R researchers or groups - anything else documenting scientific impact as well as real world impact in business / industry, education, the military and beyond Especially applications to business / industry would be interesting. I am glad for any pointer - it does not have to be full-blow stats. Just materials that document impact. Many thanks, Julian PS I do know the ACT-R website. From mchan at inf.ed.ac.uk Mon Feb 7 23:32:09 2011 From: mchan at inf.ed.ac.uk (LHD-11) Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 04:32:09 +0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 2nd CFP: IJCAI-11 Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large & Heterogeneous Data (LHD-11) Message-ID: <4D50C749.6010504@inf.ed.ac.uk> Apologies for cross-posting ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for papers for LHD-11 workshop at IJCAI-11, July 2011, Barcelona: Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large & Heterogeneous Data http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/lhd-11/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ An interdisciplinary approach is necessary to discover and match meaning dynamically in a world of increasingly large data. This workshop aims to bring together practitioners from academia, industry and government for interaction and discussion. The workshop will feature: * A panel discussion representing industrial and governmental input, entitled "Big Society meets Big Data: Industry and Government Applications of Mapping Meaning". Panel members will include: * Peter Mika (Yahoo!) * Alon Halevy (Google) * Tom McCutcheon (Dstl) * Representative of ONR Global * An invited talk from Fausto Giunchglia, discussing the relationship between social computing and ontology matching; * Paper and poster presentations; * Workshop sponsored by: Yahoo! Research, W3C and others Workshop Description The problem of semantic alignment - that of two systems failing to understand one another when their representations are not identical - occurs in a huge variety of areas: Linked Data, database integration, e-science, multi-agent systems, information retrieval over structured data; anywhere, in fact, where semantics or a shared structure are necessary but centralised control over the schema of the data sources is undesirable or impractical. Yet this is increasingly a critical problem in the world of large scale data, particularly as more and more of this kind of data is available over the Web. In order to interact successfully in an open and heterogeneous environment, being able to dynamically and adaptively integrate large and heterogeneous data from the Web "on the go" is necessary. This may not be a precise process but a matter of finding a good enough integration to allow interaction to proceed successfully, even if a complete solution is impossible. Considerable success has already been achieved in the field of ontology matching and merging, but the application of these techniques - often developed for static environments - to the dynamic integration of large-scale data has not been well studied. Presenting the results of such dynamic integration to both end-users and database administrators - while providing quality assurance and provenance - is not yet a feature of many deployed systems. To make matters more difficult, on the Web there are massive amounts of information available online that could be integrated, but this information is often chaotically organised, stored in a wide variety of data-formats, and difficult to interpret. This area has been of interest in academia for some time, and is becoming increasingly important in industry and - thanks to open data efforts and other initiatives - to government as well. The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners from academia, industry and government who are involved in all aspects of this field: from those developing, curating and using Linked Data, to those focusing on matching and merging techniques. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Integration of large and heterogeneous data * Machine-learning over structured data * Ontology evolution and dynamics * Ontology matching and alignment * Presentation of dynamically integrated data * Incentives and human computation over structured data and ontologies * Ranking and search over structured and semi-structured data * Quality assurance and data-cleansing * Vocabulary management in Linked Data * Schema and ontology versioning and provenance * Background knowledge in matching * Extensions to knowledge representation languages to better support change * Inconsistency and missing values in databases and ontologies * Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation * Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., p2p, agents, streaming) * Case studies, software tools, use cases, applications * Open problems * Foundational issues Applications and evaluations on data-sources that are from the Web and Linked Data are particularly encouraged. Submission LHD-11 invites submissions of both full length papers of no more than 6 pages and position papers of 1-3 pages. Authors of full-papers which are considered to be both of a high quality and of broad interest to most attendees will be invited to give full presentations; authors of more position papers will be invited to participate in "group panels" and in a poster session. All accepted papers (both position and full length papers) will be published as part of the IJCAI workshop proceedings, and will be available online from the workshop website. After the workshop, we will be publishing a special issue of the Artificial Intelligence Review and authors of the best quality submissions will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers (subject to the overall standard of submissions being appropriately high). All contributions should be in pdf format and should be uploaded via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lhd11. Authors should follow the IJCAI author instructions http://ijcai-11.iiia.csic.es/calls/formatting_instructions. Important Dates Paper submission: March 14, 2011 Notification: April 25, 2011 Camera ready: May 16, 2011 Early registration: TBA Late registration: TBA Workshop: 16th July, 2011 Organising Committee: Fiona McNeill (University of Edinburgh) Harry Halpin (Yahoo! Research) Michael Chan (University of Edinburgh) Program committee: Marcelo Arenas (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) Krisztian Balog (University of Amsterdam) Paolo Besana (University of Edinburgh) Roi Blanco (Yahoo! Research) Paolo Bouquet (University of Trento) Ulf Brefeld (Yahoo! Research) Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh) Ciro Cattuto (ISI Foundation) Vinay Chaudhri (SRI) James Cheney (University of Edinburgh) Oscar Corcho (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid) Shady Elbassuoni (Max-Planck-Institut f?r Informatik) Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes) Eraldo Fernandes (Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio de Janeiro) Aldo Gangemi (CNR) Pat Hayes (IHMC) Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University) Ivan Herman (W3C) Tom McCutcheon (Dstl) Shuai Ma (Beihang University) Ashok Malhotra (Oracle) Martin Merry (Epimorphics) Daniel Miranker (University of Texas-Austin) Adam Pease (Articulate Software) Valentina Presutti (CNR) David Roberston (University of Edinburgh) Juan Sequeda (University of Texas-Austin) Pavel Shvaiko (Informatica Trentina) Jamie Taylor (Google) Eveylne Viegas (Microsoft Research) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From n.a.taatgen at rug.nl Wed Feb 9 03:26:19 2011 From: n.a.taatgen at rug.nl (Niels Taatgen) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 09:26:19 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R European workshop Message-ID: European ACT-R Spring School and Workshop Organizers: Niels Taatgen and Hedderik van Rijn University of Groningen, Netherlands April 11-16, 2011 We are pleased to announce our two invited speakers for the workshop: - Kevin Gluck (Air Force Research Laboratory) - Andrew Howes (University of Manchester) http://www.ai.rug.nl/actr-springschool/workshop/ ACT-R is a cognitive theory and simulation system for developing cognitive models for tasks that vary from simple reaction time paradigms to driving a car and air traffic control. After a very successful first year, we will organize the second European ACT-R Spring School and Workshop. There will be no regular US summer school or workshop this year, but instead a post-graduate summer school (16-19 July) just before the Cognitive Science conference (see http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/actrnews/index.php?id=37). Spring School The spring school will take place from Monday April 11 to Thursday April 14. After an earlier call for applications, we have selected a group of students for a "traditional summer school curriculum", and a group of more experiences modelers who will join us to work on their own projects during the week. European ACT-R Workshop The European ACT-R workshop will take place from Friday April 15 to Saturday April 16. Both days will be devoted to research presentations, each lasting about 20 minutes plus questions. Participants are invited to present their ACT-R research by submitting a title and abstract with their registration, which will be published online in informal proceedings. We are also open for proposals for other types of contributions, for example small symposia. We also want to set aside some time to discuss possibilities to attract European funding. Admission to the workshop is open to all. The early registration fee is Euro 100 and the late registration fee (after March 12) is Euro 150. Requests for presentations should be submitted before February 28 to receive full consideration for inclusion in the workshop program. A preliminary program of presentations will be made available sometime in March. If, because of travel plans, an earlier decision about a submission is required, please contact us. Housing We have reserved a block of rooms in the University Guest House. These will be primarily allotted to spring school students, but any rooms left over will be made available to workshop participants. Alternatively, other hotels can be found at, for example, http://www.hotels.nl/groningen/ - but be aware that some of the hotels advertised as being in Groningen are a car-ride from the city center/location of the spring school and workshop. Registration To register for the Workshop, please send the filled out registration form in an email to Niels Taatgen (n.a.taatgen at rug.nl) Registration Form Second European ACT-R Workshop April 15-16, 2011 at University of Groningen, The Netherlands Name: Address: Affiliation Tel/Fax: Email: Registration fee: On or before March 12: 100 Euro ... After March 12: 150 Euro ... Details on how to transfer the registration fee will be sent after registration. Non-European participants can pay the registration fee at the start of the workshop. 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URL: From ritter at ist.psu.edu Fri Feb 11 09:46:18 2011 From: ritter at ist.psu.edu (Frank Ritter) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:46:18 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Endowed Chair at Penn State Message-ID: This may be of interest, at least I hope it is. cheers, Frank *Announcement: Frymoyer Endowed Chair Professor Position* *College of Information Sciences and Technology* *The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA* The Pennsylvania State University College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) is seeking candidates for the position of Frymoyer Chair. The Frymoyer Chair is a tenured, full professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology. The anticipated start date is Fall 2011 or Spring 2012. The endowed chair was established in 1999 through a gift of $1.5 million from the Edward J. Frymoyer Foundation. The holder of the Frymoyer Chair is expected to have a significant impact not only in the College, but also across multiple disciplines at the University and in the public and private sectors. Funds from the endowment will support the chair holder's contributions to instruction, research, and public service with the overall intent to foster the use, benefits, and effectiveness of the information sciences around the globe. The Pennsylvania State University is the land-grant University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is comprised of the University Park campus, where the College is located, and 23 other campuses throughout the state. The College was founded in 1998 to develop information science and technology leaders for the digital, global society, and enrolled its first class of students in the 1999-2000 academic year. The College at University Park, which includes 50 full-time faculty, currently serves approximately 1100 undergraduate students, 110 resident graduate students, primarily in the Ph.D. program, and 100 non-resident graduate students in a professional master's degree program. In addition, the IST undergraduate curriculum is offered at 19 other Penn State campuses. In January 2004, the College moved into a new 190,000 square foot building on the University Park campus. The building houses both the College of IST and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. To learn more about our structure, vision, mission, goals, faculty and students, please see http://ist.psu.edu. We seek a candidate who will provide research leadership as our College moves forward in its second decade of existence. We have faculty strengths in: (1) computational informatics and artificial intelligence; (2) human computer interaction and cognitive studies; (3) information systems development/enterprise architecture; (4) security and informatics; and (5) social policy, economics and informatics. As an interdisciplinary faculty we collaborate on problems of national significance. We are particularly interested in candidates with demonstrated research leadership in cutting edge problem areas such as infrastructure and internet security and privacy, innovation in web search, health informatics, network science, social media, and educational technology. The successful candidate will have a well defined and sustained record of funded research and accomplishments. However, we will not limit our search to specific research areas or problems. Applications from those who seek to be a part of a vibrant, civil and diverse academic community and who do research and teaching in any of the information and technology sciences are welcome. Qualified candidates are invited to send a cover letter with their research vision, their curriculum vita, as well as names and email addresses of four persons who will write letters of recommendation to chairsearch at ist.psu.edu Review of applications will begin February 18, 2011 and continue until the position is filled. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity and the diversity of its workforce. This announcement is available at http://ist.psu.edu/chairsearch. From Tiffany.Jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil Tue Feb 15 08:40:27 2011 From: Tiffany.Jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil (Jastrzembski, Tiffany S Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:40:27 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] BRIMS 2011 Registration and Lodging Deadlines Approaching! Message-ID: <9AC197D8D0788140BC98A478FB3852A879A704@VFOHMLMC11.Enterprise.afmc.ds.af.mil> (Best viewed in HTML; Apologies for Cross-Postings) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ ***The BRIMS 2011 Early Bird Registration Deadline is today!*** Please navigate to http://brimsconference.org/registration to ensure you receive your discounted rate. ***Reservations to secure lodging at the resort must be completed by Monday, February 21*** Please navigate to http://brimsconference.org/travel for more information, or call 1-800-1600 and reference BRIMS 2011 to reserve your room. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ You are invited to participate in the 20th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS), to be held at the Sundance Resort in Sundance, UT. BRIMS enables modeling and simulation research scientists, engineers, and technical communities across disciplines to meet, share ideas, identify capability gaps, discuss cutting-edge research directions, highlight promising technologies, and showcase the state-of-the-art in Department of Defense related applications. The BRIMS Conference will consist of many exciting elements in 2011, including special topic areas, technical paper sessions, special symposia/panel discussions, and government laboratory sponsor sessions. Highlights of BRIMS 2011 include a fantastic and eclectic lineup of keynote speakers spanning cognitive modeling, sociocultural modeling, and network science: John Laird, PhD University of Michigan, http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/laird/ Lael Schooler, Phd Max Planck Institute, http://ntfm.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/mpib/FMPro Kathleen Carley, PhD Carnegie Mellon University, http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/bios/carley/carley.html Chris Barrett, PhD Virginia Tech, http://ndssl.vbi.vt.edu/people/cbarrett.html The BRIMS Executive Committee invites papers, posters, demos, symposia, panel discussions, and tutorials on topics related to the representation of individuals, groups, teams and organizations in models and simulations. All submissions are peer-reviewed (see www.brimsconference.org for additional details on submission types). Key Dates: All submissions due: December 21, 2010 Tutorial Acceptance: January 31, 2011 Authors Notification January 31, 2011 Final version due: February 18, 2011 Tutorials held: March 21, 2011 BRIMS 2010 Opens: March 22, 2011 Special Topic Areas of Interest are identified to elicit specific technical content: * M&S in network science * Statistical/Graphical approaches to M&S * M&S for asymmetric warfare and joint force applications * Cognitive or behavioral performance moderators in M&S * Integration and reuse of models * Large-scale, persistent, and generative modeling issues General Topic Areas of Interest include, but are not limited to: Modeling * Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling * Cognitive robots and human-robot interaction * Models of reasoning and decision making * Model validation & comparison * Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/ behavior * Physical models of human movement * Performance assessment and skill monitoring/tracking * Performance prediction/enhancement/optimization * Intelligent tutoring systems * Knowledge acquisition/engineering * Human behavior issues in model federations Simulation * Synthetic environments for human behavior representation * Terrain representation and reasoning * Spatial reasoning * Time representation * Human behavior usability and interoperability * Efficiency, usability, affordability issues * Operator interfaces * Multi-resolution/fidelity simulations * Science of simulation issues ACCOMMODATIONS and REGISTRATION The conference will be held at the Sundance Resort in Sundance, UT. Visit www.sundanceresort.com for general information about the site and accommodations. Conference and hotel registration, general area, and travel information can be found at www.brimsconference.org. BRIMS PROGAM COMMITTEE: Bradley J. Best (Adaptive Cognitive Systems) William G. Kennedy (George Mason University) Frank E. Ritter (Pennsylvania State University) BRIMS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Joe Armstrong (CAE), Brad Cain (Defence Research and Development Canada), Bruno Emond (National Research Council Canada), Coty Gonzalez (Carnegie Mellon University), Brian Gore (NASA), Jeff Hansberger (Army Research Laboratory), Kenneth Kwok (DSO National Laboratories, Singapore), John Laird (University of Michigan), Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon University), Christopher Myers (Air Force Research Laboratory), Bharat Patel (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, UK), Sylvain Pronovost (Carleton University & CAE), Venkat Sastry (University of Cranfield), Barry Silverman (University of Pennsylvania), Neil Smith (QinetiQ), LtCol David Sonntag (AOARD), Webb Stacy (Aptima), Mike van Lent (SoarTech), Walter Warwick (Alion Science and Technology), Jason Wong (Naval Undersea Warfare Center), Patrick Xavier (Sandia National Laboratories) A special thanks to the BRIMS 2011 Government Sponsors for their support of this event: Air Force Research Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory, DARPA, Office of Naval Research, Natick Soldier Center, NASA, and the UK Ministry of Defence. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the BRIMS 2011 Conference Chair, Dr. Tiffany Jastrzembski (tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tiffany S. Jastrzembski, Ph.D. Cognitive Research Scientist Air Force Research Laboratory 2698 G Street, Building 190 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7604 Phone: (937) 255-2085 tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From atilla.elci at emu.edu.tr Tue Feb 15 12:03:52 2011 From: atilla.elci at emu.edu.tr (Atilla Elci (EMU)) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:03:52 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP 6th IEEE ESAS, 18-22 July, 2011, Munich. Message-ID: <043701cbcd32$557e98d0$007bca70$@elci@emu.edu.tr> My dear colleague, FYI and please inform relevant contacts on the following CFP? ESAS 2011 keywords are as follows: Semantic Web, multiagent systems, software agents, MAS, ontology, semantic web services, intelligent agents, ontology-based systems, context-aware intelligent agents, software, programming languages, robotics, security, DBMS, QoS [Sorry for cross posting] The 6th IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems Held in conjunction with the 35th COMPSAC, the IEEE Signature Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications. COMPSAC 2011 will be held in Munich, Germany, July 18-22. IMPORTANT DATES _____ March 22, 2011 : Workshop paper submission April 12, 2011 : Workshop paper author notification May 2, 2011 : Camera-ready & author registration Further info is available at http://compsac.cs.iastate.edu/workshop_details.php?id=32 &y= Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society. --------------------------------- Thank you. Warm greetings, Atilla Elci, Ph.D. http://member.acm.org/~aelci http://toros.academia.edu/AtillaEl?i/ ESAS 2011 CFP: http://compsac.cs.iastate.edu/workshop_details.php?id=32&y= COMPSAC SemWeb Track: http://compsac.cs.iastate.edu/trackdescriptions.php#SW SIN 2011 CFP: http://www.sinconf.org/ CFP: Wiley SCN : http://tinyurl.com/SCN-SI-SINConfs SASFA Book: http://www.springer.com/engineering/mathematical/book/978-3-642-18307-2 Proc. IJRCS 2009 is out: http://edergi.sdu.edu.tr/index.php/utbd/issue/view/367 http://www.mts4.cankaya.edu.tr/davetlikonusmacilar.htm NB: TorosU: Professional M.Sc. in IT Program now accepting applications. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lhteo at cmu.edu Tue Feb 15 14:47:21 2011 From: lhteo at cmu.edu (Leonghwee Teo) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:47:21 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Thesis Defense: Leonghwee Teo, Monday, February 21, 3:30pm @ GHC 6115, CMU Message-ID: THESIS DEFENSE Modeling Goal-Directed User Exploration in Human-Computer Interaction Leonghwee Teo, Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), Carnegie Mellon University Monday, February 21, 2011 3:30pm, Gates and Hillman Centers 6115 COMMITTEE Bonnie E. John, HCII (Chair) Aniket Kittur, HCII Brad A. Myers, HCII Peter L. Pirolli, PARC ABSTRACT Designing user-interfaces so that first-time or infrequent users can accomplish their goals by exploration has been an enduring challenge in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Iterative user-testing is an effective but costly method to develop user-interfaces that support use through exploration. A complementary method is to use modeling tools that can generate predictions of user exploration given a user-interface and a goal description. Recent computational models of goal-directed user exploration have focused on predicting user exploration of websites and demonstrated how predictions can inform user-interface design. These models employ the common concepts of label following and information scent: that the user's choice is partly determined by the semantic relevance between the user's goal and the options presented in the user-interface. However, in addition to information scent, other factors including the layout position and grouping of options in the user-interface also affect user exploration and the likelihood of success. This dissertation contributes a new model of goal-directed user exploration, called CogTool-Explorer, which considers the layout position and the grouping of options in the user-interface in concert with a serial evaluation visual search process and information scent. Tests show that predictions from CogTool-Explorer match participant data better than alternative models that do not consider layout position and grouping. This dissertation work has also integrated the CogTool-Explorer model into an existing modeling tool, called CogTool, making it easier for other researchers and practitioners to setup and generate predictions of likely user exploration paths and task performance using CogTool-Explorer. From n.a.taatgen at rug.nl Wed Feb 16 04:58:12 2011 From: n.a.taatgen at rug.nl (Niels Taatgen) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:58:12 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] PhD vacancy in Groningen Cognitive Modeling group Message-ID: <9A6E1BE6-603F-466A-A006-B85C5217CB9D@rug.nl> Dear all, We have a PhD vacancy in my research group (Cognitive Modeling) that may be of interest to you or one of your students. See details below. Niels Taatgen Dear colleagues, I have an opening for a PhD student available in Groningen (Department of Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Modeling group). I am looking for candidates who have a strong quantitative background but also a feeling with psychology and experiments. Prior experience with EEG and/or fMRI analysis is a plus. If you know of any students who might be suited for this, please feel free to forward them to me. The job ad can be found at: http://www.rug.nl/corporate/vacatures/jobOpportunitiesRUG (vacancy 211047), and is also pasted below. Thank you very much in advance, Marieke Fully funded PhD position Cognitive Modeling group (1,0 fte) (211047) Organisation We invite applications for a four-year PhD student position available in the Cognitive Modeling group, in the laboratory of Marieke van Vugt (http://www.ai.rug.nl/~mkvanvugt/index_lab.html). The Cognitive Modeling group forms part of the ALICE research institute within the Department of Artificial Intelligence. It has a world-class reputation in cognitive modeling, largely based on the ACT-R architecture. The laboratory of Marieke van Vugt focuses on the neural correlates of decision making based on remembered information, combining modeling, behavioral experiments and EEG/fMRI. Job description The PhD project focuses on relating computational models of decision making based on remembered information to EEG and fMRI data. The drift diffusion model of memory and decision making makes explicit predictions of the dynamics of evidence accumulation, and these predictions will be examined in neural data. The project will bridge the domains of perceptual decision making and recognition memory. Specific focus will be placed on how different brain areas interact to implement this evidence accumulation process and adjust performance on a trial-to-trial basis. The participant will engage in advanced data analysis of existing EEG data sets, and collect new EEG and fMRI data. Qualifications A successful candidate has a Master's degree in Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Experimental Psychology, Artificial Intelligence or a related field, and has programming skills in Matlab, C, or Python. Experience in running EEG and/or fMRI experiments, or in modeling of cognition, is an advantage. Conditions of employment The University of Groningen offers a salary of 2,042 gross per month in the first year up to a maximum of 2,612 gross per month in the final year. The appointment is for a period of four years, which should be finished with a PhD examination. The full time appointment is temporary for 1.5 years with the perspective of prolongation for another 2.5 years. After the first year, there will be an evaluation of the feasibility of successful completion of the PhD thesis within the next three years. A training programme within the Graduate School of Science is part of the agreement. You and your supervisor will make up a plan for additional education and supervising that is specific to your needs. How to apply: Send a cover letter (with professional goals and a statement of interest), a curriculum vitae and two letters of recommendation (PDF format) to the job application portal before April 1st, 2011, although applications received after the deadline may be considered. Starting date: as soon as possible. Information For information you can contact: Dr Marieke van Vugt, m.k.van.vugt at rug.nl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marieke van Vugt, PhD Assistant Professor, Cognitive Modeling Group Bernoulliborg, room 326 Nijenborgh 9 9747 AG Groningen The Netherlands phone: +31-6-51954984 (cell) +31-50-363-9487 (office) http://www.ai.rug.nl/~mkvanvugt m.k.van.vugt at rug.nl =============================================== Niels Taatgen - Professor University of Groningen, Artificial Intelligence web: http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels email: niels at ai.rug.nl Telephone: +31 50 3636435 =============================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hedderik at van-rijn.org Mon Feb 21 08:49:08 2011 From: hedderik at van-rijn.org (Hedderik van Rijn) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:49:08 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Workshop on Psychophysical, Computational and Neuroscience Models of Time Perception Message-ID: <89D299FE-A460-4EED-B9DD-3D9C6A20C725@van-rijn.org> Dear colleagues, in the week before the ACT-R Spring School and Workshop, we will host a training school on Psychophysical, Computational and Neuroscience Models of Time Perception. Feel free to forward this email to any who might be interested, - Hedderik. TIMELY Training School on Psychophysical, Computational and Neuroscience Models of Time Perception Groningen, April 4 ? 8, 2011 TIMELY (EU COST funded Action; www.timely-cost.eu) is organizing a Training School on the "Psychophysical, Computational and Neuroscience Models of Time Perception". The Training School will take place from Monday April 4th to Friday April 8th at the University of Groningen, NL and will include both hands-on lab sessions and theoretical lectures. April 4th-5th: A two-day intensive hand-on course on EEG methodology combined with lectures on how to measure time perception in EEG. Lectures by: Niko Busch (Humbolt University, Berlin), Warren H. Meck (Duke University), Trevor Penney (National University of Singapore), Hedderik van Rijn (University of Groningen), Agnieszka Wykowska (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich) April 6th-7th: Presentations on current models of time perception combined with lectures on detailed and contrasting views on the components of those models. Lectures by: Fuat Balci (Princeton University), Luke Jones (University of Manchester), Jeremie Jozefowiez and Armando Machado (University of Minho, Portugal), Warren H. Meck (Duke University), Niels Taatgen (University of Groningen), John Wearden (Keele University), Dan Zakay (Tel Aviv University), and others. April 6th Evening: Poster presentation by all attending students. April 8th: A one-day intensive hand-on course on creating computational models (using the SET and the Taatgen, Van Rijn and Anderson, 2008, accounts) in ACT-R. A detailed program will be uploaded on http://www.timely-cost.eu/activities/training-schools. A limited number of 20 students will be admitted to the Training School and will be funded for up to 600 euros (travel and accommodation). Funding can only be provided for students who attend the full training school and present a poster during the student poster session on Wednesday. This poster can either focus on already conducted work, or on planned work. Accommodation for students (shared rooms) can be arranged by the organizers at the University Guesthousehttp://www.rug.nl/corporate/universiteit/wiewatwaar/guesthouse/index?lang=en (The costs are: E 46.50 per person per night, assuming double occupancy). Prospective participants should be at advanced Master, PhD or Post-Doc level and should submit the following documents to argiro.vatakis at gmail.com: ? Curriculum vitae (please specify if you have any EEG experience) ? Statement of purpose (max 1 page) ? Title and Abstract of the poster that will be presented in the student poster session ? A detailed budget for travel. ? Whether you prefer a room in the University Guesthouse or arrange for lodging yourself. For full consideration, applications should be submitted before February 28th. On February 28th, we will inform those students who will be funded. 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The virtual models will be use in a simulation where they will perform a number of tasks in different domains: automotive, workspace, infotainment, etc. The purpose of this simulation is to see whether this virtual model representing a human being with a disability, can perform the proposed tasks in a simulation.(ie: a person with upper-limb impairment won't be able to perform a range of tasks with the hands or a person with a severe memory impairment cannot retain new memories and therefore cannot memorize a telephone number). After an initial research, it seems that ACT-R is one of the most promising cognitive architectures, since it allows us to "moderate/overlay" the models in order to represent a varied number of users (in our case it can be used to modified the performance of user's memory and attention that decreases for elderly and some cognitive disabilities). As I mentioned before, in our project, these "virtual models" are the input of a simulation. This simulation has as input these virtual models, but also the simulation models ( based on a composition of tasks previously defined in XML). So, if I'm not mistaken, if you want to simulate a person performing a task (ie: driving) you have to "write in ACT-R" all the information regarding the declarative and procedural memory. In this example model the productions that model how people drive and the facts (chunks) of driving. However, there are some issues that remain unclear to me: ? These simulation models we are developing (task models) are not fixed, we have a repository of tasks and the developers can "compose" the final simulation model as a sequence of tasks, allowing to have an infinite number of simulation of models. So we would need that Act-R allowed certain modularity and reuse of the code for the models. Is this feasible? Is there any modification of ACT-R allowing this? ? Another question is concerning the simulation: if there are external events happening in the simulation (ie: a car in front of us when driving), should these "events" also be part of the declarative memory? If the answer is yes, do we have APIs that allow us to integrate this "events" into chunks in an automatic way? ? Does it exist t any open repository of ACT-R tasks models that we could use? I would really appreciate any advise you could give me. This is a new world for me, and it's difficult to go into it without getting lost. Best regards and thanks in advance, Ana Navarro Ana Navarro Cerd? R&D Department ITACA-TSB [cid:image001.gif at 01CBD285.3F517F20] Health & Wellbeing Technologies Univ. Polit?cnica de Valencia Edificio G8 - Camino de Vera s/n 46022 Valencia tel: +34 96 387 76 06 fax: +34 96 387 72 79 e-mail: annacer at itaca.upv.es http://www.tsb.upv.es -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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So we would need that > Act-R allowed certain modularity and reuse of the code for the models. > Is this feasible? Is there any modification of ACT-R allowing this? > >From a technical standpoint, there is nothing that prevents composing a model from several smaller components. An ACT-R model is essentially just Lisp source code and thus one could load individual pieces as necessary. From a practical standpoint however there would of course be software engineering type issues with respect to creating those components such that they can be used together. There's nothing in ACT-R which specifically addresses issues like that and the modeler wishing to do so would be responsible for creating and maintaining compatible and non-conflicting representations and production sets as desired. > ? Another question is concerning the simulation: if there are > external events happening in the simulation (ie: a car in front of us > when driving), should these "events" also be part of the declarative > memory? The answer to that question depends on how you're looking to model the task. ACT-R has perceptual modules for vision and hearing which can be used to situate a model in a world. Thus, one could use those to provide the input to the model in a more natural way. To do that one has to create what we call a "device" for the model which converts the simulation output into an appropriate form for the model to use. The device is also responsible for converting the model's motor and vocal output into the proper actions needed by the simulation environment. Alternatively, it is possible to forgo the perceptual and motor components of ACT-R and simulate a world for the model through the manipulation of chunks in declarative memory as well as the goal and imaginal modules. Which method you choose would depend on your objectives for the modeling effort. > If the answer is yes, do we have APIs that allow us to integrate > this "events" into chunks in an automatic way? > There is a reference manual which provides the API for the ACT-R system itself, and there is documentation and example code included with the ACT-R sources for creating devices for a model. If one chooses to not use a device there is no "one way" to go about simulating an environment for the model, and thus one would have to decide on how to do that essentially from scratch. > ? Does it exist t any open repository of ACT-R tasks models that > we could use? > > There is no repository of ACT-R models, but models for some published work are available through the ACT-R web site: and other researchers have made models available in other ways as well. However, some of those are models which were written for older versions of ACT-R which won't work properly as-is in the current software, and no two would likely be useable together without modification because they wouldn't have been designed for that purpose. So, there is not a library of ready to use component models which you could just download and use. > > I would really appreciate any advise you could give me. This is a new > world for me, and it's difficult to go into it without getting lost. > The first thing I would suggest is to download the ACT-R software and work through the included tutorial materials from . That will introduce all of the basic components of the system and give you a feel for what creating an ACT-R model is like. Along with that, if you are not already comfortable with Lisp programming you might also want to get some instructional materials for that as well because creating an interface for the model (whether a device or direct chunk manipulation) is going to involve Lisp programming. After that, you should be in a better position to decide whether ACT-R is the tool you want to use and how you may want to go about using it. Hope that helps, and if you have any questions or problems about the ACT-R software specifically, feel free to email me about them. Dan From nlpcs2011 at gmail.com Fri Feb 25 05:44:13 2011 From: nlpcs2011 at gmail.com (NLPCS2011) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:44:13 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] NLPCS2011 Workshop Message-ID: 8th International Workshop on *Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science - NLPCS 2011 * *Special Theme: Human-Machine Interaction in Translation* *http://www.cbs.dk/nlpcs2011* 20-21 August, 2011 - Copenhagen, Denmark *Scope and Topics of NLPCS workshop* The aim of this workshop is to foster interactions among researchers and practitioners in Natural Language Processing (NLP) working within the paradigm of Cognitive Science (CS). Research into NLP involves concepts and methods from many fields including artificial intelligence, linguistics, computational linguistics, statistics, computer science, and most importantly cognitive science. The overall emphasis of the workshop is on the contribution of cognitive science to language processing, including conceptualisation, representation, discourse processing, meaning construction, ontology building, and text mining. The special theme of this year's NLPCS workshop is "Human-Machine Interaction in Translation". Therefore, we particularly welcome papers addressing aspects of human and machine translation and human-computer interaction in translation. Additional topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cognitive and Psychological Models of NLP - Computational Models of NLP - Evolutionary NLP - Situated (embodied) NLP - Multimodality in speech / text processing - Text Summarisation and Information Extraction - Natural Language Interfaces and Dialogue Systems - Multi-Lingual Processing - Pragmatics and NLP - Speech Processing - Tools and Resources in NLP - Human and Machine Translation - Ontologies - Text Mining - Electronic Dictionaries - Evaluation of NLP Systems These topics can be addressed from any of the following perspectives: *full automation* by machines for machine (traditional NLP or HLT), *semi-automated processing*, *i.e. machine-mediated* processing (programs assisting people in their tasks), *simulation of human* cognitive processes. With this year?s special theme we also welcome submissions on translators? experiences with CAT tools, human-machine interface design, methods for and evaluation of interactive machine translation, feasibility studies, user simulation, *etc*. *Keynote Speaker at NLPCS* RMK Sinha, IIT Kanpur, India, will talk about: *Man-Machine Integration in the Translation Process: An Indian Scenario* The talk will cover the current MT research and translation industry status in the Indian subcontinent. Dr. Sinha is a Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur where he has been serving for more than three decades. Dr. Sinha's major research concentration has been in the areas of language technology and applied artificial intelligence. In the early 70s, he worked on Devanagari OCR and was the first person to work on the topic. In the late 70s and early 80s, he worked on Indian script enabling and their computer processing. He is the originator of the well-known multilingual GIST technology / IDC, ISCII coding, INSCRIPT keyboarding and several other Indian language technologies. Starting in the late 80s, he has been working on computer processing of Indian languages. He is the originator of AnglaBharati and AnuBharati technology for translation from English to Indian languages and vice-versa. He is a member of TDIL working group, National Translation Mission Advisory, Technical Advisory Committee of CDAC, Standardization committee, Associate UNESCO chair in ORBICOM. He is founding president of the Society for Machine Aids for Translation and Communication (SMATAC), Fellow IETE, and Senior Member of IEEE. He has been a visiting professor at Michigan State University, Wayne State University, INRS Quebec and Asian Institute of Technology. *Paper Submission for NLPCS* Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above. Papers should be in English, and instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at *http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html. * Since reviewing will be blind, papers should not include names of authors and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author?s identity should be avoided. Once prepared, papers should be submitted electronically for review in pdf format via the submission system . Selected papers from previous NLPCS workshops were published as special issues of the International Journal of Speech Technology. Best papers from this workshop and future ones will also be published in an international journal. *Important Dates for NLPCS 2011* - *Paper* *Submission**:* *2nd May 2011* - *Authors?* *Notification*: 6th June 2011 - *Final* Paper *Submission*: 15th July 2011 - *Registration* and *Payment*: 15th July 2011 - *Workshop : * 20-21 August 2011 *Information will be updated at the workshop website : ** www.cbs.dk/nlpcs2011* *Enquiries can be made to**: NLPCS2011 at gmail.com* *NLPCS Co-chairs* - *Sharp B. *Staffordshire University, UK - *Zock, M. *LIF- CNRS, France - *Carl, M. *Copenhagen Business School, Denmark - *Jakobsen, A.* *L. *Copenhagen Business School, Denmark *NLPCS Workshop Program Committee* Aretoulaki, M. (Dialog Connection, UK); Ball, J.T. (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA); Barnden, J. (Birmingham University, UK); Blanchon, H (IMAG, Grenoble, France); Carl, M. (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark); Casacuberta F (UPV, Spain); Delmonte, R. (University of Texas, Dallas, USA); Endres-Niggemeyer (Fachhochschule Hannover, Germany); Ferret, O. (CEA, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France); Fischer, I. ( University of Konstanz, Germany); Higgins, C.A. (Nottingham Trent University, UK); Higgins S.J.B (Nottingham Trent University, UK); P. Koehn (University of Edinburgh, UK); Kutz, Oliver (University of Bremen, Germany); Langlais P. (University of Montreal, Canada); Lapalme,G. (University of Montreal, Canada); Lepage Y (Waseda University, Japan); Macklovitch, E (Bureau de la traduction, Canada); Mladenic D. (J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia); Murray, W. E. (Boeing Research and Technology); Neustein, A. (Journal of Speech Technology, USA); Netter, K (Consulting GmbH, Saarbr?cken, Germany); Rapp, B. (GRLC, Tarragona, Spain); Roche, C. (Universit? de Savoie, France); Sedes, F. (Universit? de Toulouse, France); Schwab D (LIG-GETALP, Grenoble, France); Thompson G. (Liverpool University, UK); Tiedmann J (Uppsala University, Stockholm, Sweden); Tufis Dan (University "A.I.Cuza" of Iasi, Romania); Rayson P. (Lancaster University, UK); Sharp B (Staffordshire University, UK); Wandmacher, T. (CEA, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France); Zock, M. (LIF- CNRS, France) *Local Arrangement * - *Borch M.* Copenhagen Business School - *Carl M.* Copenhagen Business School - *Jakobsen A.L.* Copenhagen Business School *This year?s NLPCS* *workshop* *will be immediately preceded by a Ph.D summer school course in Translation Processes Research ? TPR**, 15-19**August, 2011 - Copenhagen, Denmark * *Course in Translation Processes Research (TPR)* The Centre for Research in Translation and Translation Technology (CRITT) at the Copenhagen Business School is offering an international, English-language course on translation process research which will precede the NLPCS workshop. This 1st International TPR course will focus on theoretical aspects of process research, on experimental research design and methodology, on data representation and visualization, on quantitative and qualitative translation data analysis, and on user interaction with language technological tools. Participants in the TPR course are encouraged to participate also* *at the NLPCS workshop and may register at a special rate. Updated information about the summer school PhD course will be available at *www.cbs.dk/tpr2011* (the information can also be accessed via * www.cbs.dk/nlpcs2011*) *Enquiries can be made to: **Arnt Lykke Jakobsen*, *alj.isv at cbs.dk* *Important Dates for TPR 2011* - *Registration TPR*: 15th June 2011 - *PhD course on TPR*: 15-19 August 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mc.isv at cbs.dk Mon Feb 28 11:03:46 2011 From: mc.isv at cbs.dk (Michael Carl) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:03:46 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Call for papers: Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science - NLPCS 2011 : 20-21 August, 2011 - Copenhagen, Denmark In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 8th International Workshop on *Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science - NLPCS 2011 * *Special Theme: Human-Machine Interaction in Translation* http://www.cbs.dk/nlpcs2011 20-21 August, 2011 - Copenhagen, Denmark *Important Dates for NLPCS 2011* *Paper* *Submission:* *2nd May 2011* *Authors?* *Notification*: 6th June 2011 *Final* Paper *Submission*: 15th July 2011 *Registration* and *Payment*: 15th July 2011 *Workshop : * 20-21 August 2011 *Scope and Topics of NLPCS workshop*** The aim of this workshop is to foster interactions among researchers and practitioners in Natural Language Processing (NLP) working within the paradigm of Cognitive Science (CS). Research into NLP involves concepts and methods from many fields including artificial intelligence, linguistics, computational linguistics, statistics, computer science, and most importantly cognitive science. The overall emphasis of the workshop is on the contribution of cognitive science to language processing, including conceptualisation, representation, discourse processing, meaning construction, ontology building, and text mining. The special theme of this year's NLPCS workshop is "Human-Machine Interaction in Translation". Therefore, we particularly welcome papers addressing aspects of human and machine translation and human-computer interaction in translation. Additional topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? Cognitive and Psychological Models of NLP ? Computational Models of NLP ? Evolutionary NLP ? Situated (embodied) NLP ? Multimodality in speech / text processing ? Text Summarisation and Information Extraction ? Natural Language Interfaces and Dialogue Systems ? Multi-Lingual Processing ? Pragmatics and NLP ? Speech Processing ? Tools and Resources in NLP ? Human and Machine Translation ? Ontologies ? Text Mining ? Electronic Dictionaries ? Evaluation of NLP Systems These topics can be addressed from any of the following perspectives: *full automation* by machines for machine (traditional NLP or HLT), *semi-automated processing*, *i.e. machine-mediated* processing (programs assisting people in their tasks), *simulation of human* cognitive processes. With this year?s special theme we also welcome submissions on translators? experiences with CAT tools, human-machine interface design, methods for and evaluation of interactive machine translation, feasibility studies, user simulation, *etc*. * * *Keynote Speaker at NLPCS*** RMK Sinha, IIT Kanpur, India *Man-Machine Integration in the Translation Process: An Indian Scenario* The talk will cover the current MT research and translation industry status in the Indian subcontinent. Dr. Sinha is a Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur where he has been serving for more than three decades. Dr. Sinha's major research concentration has been in the areas of language technology and applied artificial intelligence. In the early 70s, he worked on Devanagari OCR and was the first person to work on the topic. In the late 70s and early 80s, he worked on Indian script enabling and their computer processing. He is the originator of the well-known multilingual GIST technology / IDC, ISCII coding, INSCRIPT keyboarding and several other Indian language technologies. Starting in the late 80s, he has been working on computer processing of Indian languages. He is the originator of AnglaBharati and AnuBharati technology for translation from English to Indian languages and vice-versa. He is a member of TDIL working group, National Translation Mission Advisory, Technical Advisory Committee of CDAC, Standardization committee, Associate UNESCO chair in ORBICOM. He is founding president of the Society for Machine Aids for Translation and Communication (SMATAC), Fellow IETE, and Senior Member of IEEE. He has been a visiting professor at Michigan State University, Wayne State University, INRS Quebec and Asian Institute of Technology. *Paper Submission for NLPCS*** Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above. Papers should be in English, and instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html. Since reviewing will be blind, papers should not include names of authors and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author?s identity should be avoided. Once prepared, papers should be submitted electronically for review in pdf format via the submission system . Selected papers from previous NLPCS workshops were published as special issues of the International Journal of Speech Technology. Best papers from this workshop and future ones will also be published in an international journal. *Important Dates for NLPCS 2011* *Paper* *Submission:* *2nd May 2011* *Authors?* *Notification*: 6th June 2011 *Final* Paper *Submission*: 15th July 2011 *Registration* and *Payment*: 15th July 2011 *Workshop : * 20-21 August 2011 *Information will be updated at the workshop website : *www.cbs.dk/nlpcs2011 ** *Enquiries can be made to: NLPCS2011 at gmail.com* * * *NLPCS Co-chairs* *Sharp B. *Staffordshire University, UK *Zock, M. *LIF- CNRS, France *Carl, M. *Copenhagen Business School, Denmark *Jakobsen, A.* *L. *Copenhagen Business School, Denmark * * *NLPCS Workshop Program Committee * *Aretoulaki, M. *Dialog Connection, UK *Ball, J.T. *Air Force Research Laboratory, USA *Barnden, J. *Birmingham University, UK *Blanchon, H. *IMAG, Grenoble, France *Carl, M. *Copenhagen Business School, Denmark *Casacuberta, F. *UPV, Spain *Delmonte, R. *University of Texas, Dallas, USA *Endres-Niggemeyer, B. *Fachhochschule Hannover, Germany *Ferret, O. *CEA, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France *Fischer, I. *University of Konstanz, Germany *Higgins, C.A. *Nottingham Trent University, UK *Higgins, S.J.B *Nottingham Trent University, UK *Koehn, P. *University of Edinburgh, UK *Kutz, O. *University of Bremen, Germany *Langlais, P. *University of Montreal, Canada *Lapalme, G. *University of Montreal, Canada *Lepage, Y. *Waseda University, Japan *Macklovitch, E. *Bureau de la traduction, Canada *Mladenic, D. *J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia *Murray, W. E. *Boeing Research and Technology *Neustein, A. *Journal of Speech Technology, USA *Netter, K. *Consulting GmbH, Saarbr?cken, Germany *Rapp, B. *GRLC, Tarragona, Spain *Roche, C. *Universit? de Savoie, France *Sedes, F. *Universit? de Toulouse, France *Schwab, D. *LIG-GETALP, Grenoble, France *Thompson, G. *Liverpool University, UK *Tiedmann, J. *Uppsala University, Stockholm, Sweden *Tufis, D. *University "A.I.Cuza" of Iasi, Romania *Rayson, P. *Lancaster University, UK *Sharp, B. *Staffordshire University, UK *Wandmacher, T. *Systran, France *Zock, M. *LIF- CNRS, France *Local Arrangement *** *Borch, M.* Copenhagen Business School *Carl, M.* Copenhagen Business School *Jakobsen, A.L.* Copenhagen Business School * * * * * * *This year?s NLPCS* *workshop* *will be immediately preceded by a Ph.D summer school course in Translation Processes Research ? TPR, 15-19 August, 2011 - Copenhagen, Denmark* * * *Course in Translation Processes Research (TPR)* The Centre for Research in Translation and Translation Technology (CRITT) at the Copenhagen Business School is offering an international, English-language course on translation process research which will precede the NLPCS workshop. This 1st International TPR course will focus on theoretical aspects of process research, on experimental research design and methodology, on data representation and visualization, on quantitative and qualitative translation data analysis, and on user interaction with language technological tools. Participants in the TPR course are encouraged to participate also* *at the NLPCS workshop and may register at a special rate. * * Updated information about the summer school PhD course will be available at www.cbs.dk/tpr2011 (the information can also be accessed via www.cbs.dk/nlpcs2011) *Enquiries can be made to: Arnt Lykke Jakobsen*, alj.isv at cbs.dk * * *Important Dates for TPR 2011* *Registration TPR*: 15th June 2011 *PhD course on TPR*: 15-19 August 2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: