2019 CCN Workshop: Semantic processing and semantic knowledge

Thursday, August 22 / Hayward Room / Hanover Inn

8:00am

 

Breakfast

8:30

Haxby

Introductory remarks

9:00-10:00

Gärdenfors

Conceptual spaces as a model of semantics

10:00-11:00

Jackendoff

The structure of knowledge 

11:00-11:30

 

Coffee break

11:30-12:30

Viganò

Navigating a novel semantic space with distance and directional codes

 

12:30-1:30

 

Lunch

1:30-2:30

Huth

Beyond distributional embeddings for modeling brain responses to language

2:30-3:30

Wehbe

Using insights from the human brain to interpret and improve NLP models

 

3:30-4:00

 

Coffee break

4:00-5:30

 

Poster session

 

Friday, August 23 / Hayward Room / The Hanover Inn

8:30am

 

Breakfast

9:00-10:00

Just

The new science of thought imaging: Applying machine learning and dimension reduction to fMRI to understand the structure of thoughts 

10:00-11:00

Milivojevic

Story maps - How we infer meaning from narratives

11:00-11:30

 

Coffee break

11:30-12:30

Nastase

Estimating a shared response space across heterogeneous naturalistic story-listening datasets

12:30-1:30

 

Lunch

1:30-2:30

Williams

Mutual information as a measure of "semantic" overlap: Two case studies in the nominal domain

2:30-3:30

Stojnic

 Nonnegotiable meanings

3:30-4:00

 

Coffee break

4:00-5:00

Haxby

Modeling the structure of information encoded in fine-scale topographies in distributed cortical systems 

5:00-5:30

 

Discussion & final remarks