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COGNITIVE FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS

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Cognitive science is the scientific study of the human . The field is highly interdisciplinary, combining ideas and methods from , science, , , and . Broadly speaking, the goal is to characterize the nature of human ‐‐ its forms and content ‐‐ and how that knowledge is used, processed, and acquired. Active areas of cognitive research include , , visual and , thinking and reasoning, social cognition, decision making, and . Important insights into issues of these kinds have been achieved in recent years as a result of the various Cognitive Science disciplines converging in their theoretical and methodological approaches. It is this convergence, in fact, that warrants grouping the disciplines together under the single term “Cognitive Science.” Even greater progress can be expected in the future as a consequence of increasing cooperation among the disciplines.

Course participants will learn these topics through lectures and hands‐on experiments. Also case studies and assignments will be shared to stimulate research motivation of participants. Modules Course Duration: December 08‐14, 2016 This course will cover following topics:

1 : Introduction to Cognitive Science and Neuroscience 2 : Perception and Visual and auditory perception attention, Eye‐tracking. Applications of eye‐tracking in HCI. 3 :Conceptual representations in the mind and the . : , acquisition. The neural representation ofconcepts. 4 : Sentence processing Ambiguity, incrementality and disambiguation in lexical processing, processing, and anaphoric processing, ERPs. 5 : in the mind and the brain Theories of emotions. The neural representation of emotions. Applications in designing artificial agents. 6 : Designing cognitively plausible virtual agents.

ƒ You are an executive/ engineer/ researcher from manufacturing, service and government You Should organizations including R&D laboratories. Attend If… ƒ You are a student at all levels (BTech/MSc/MTech/PhD) or Faculty from reputed academic institutions and technical institutions. Fees The participation fees for taking the course is as follows: Not‐for‐profit R&D and Educational Institutions: Rs. 10000/‐ Industry/ Research Organizations: Rs. 30000/‐ Academic Institutions (Full time students): Rs. 1000/‐ Note: The course fee will be made half for SC/ST students.

The above fee include all instructional materials, computer use for tutorials and assignments, laboratory equipment usage charges, 24 hr free internet facility. The participants will be provided with accommodation and food on payment basis. The Faculty

Prof. Massimo Poesio is a Professor of in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex (UK) and a Professor in Computational Linguistics at the Center for Mind/Brain , University of Course co‐ordinators Trento, Italy. He is a cognitive scientist with a particular focus on human language technology; his research Professor Pushpak Bhattacharya interests include computational models of semantic interpretation Director, Indian Institute of (especially anaphora resolution); the creation of large corpora of Technology Patna semantically annotated data, also using games‐with‐a‐purpose Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair Professor (www.phrasedetectives.org); the study of conceptual knowledge Department of Computer Science using a combination of methods from human language technology and Engineering and from neuroscience; emotions and their influence on language Indian Institute of Technology interpretation and on agent technology and deception detection. Bombay Ph: 91-22-25764729 (o), Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya is a Professor of 25721955(h) Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. Email: [email protected] He is currently the Professor and Director of IIT http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~pb Patna. He was a Visiting research fellow in Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. He Dr. Asif Ekbal is well known for his contributions to natural Assistant Professor language processing and has several distinctions in that field. He has Department of Computer Science also currently been appointed as Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair and Engineering Professor. Prof. Bhattacharyya specializes in Natural Language Indian Institute of Technology Patna Processing (NLP), Machine (ML), Machine Translation (MT), Bihta, Kanpa Road, District – Patna Cross Lingual IR (CLIR) and Extraction (IE). A highly Bihar, India – 801118 recognized researcher, Prof. Bhattacharyya is a member of National Ph: +91-8809559190(m) Knowledge Commission. Email: [email protected] Dr. Asif Ekbal is currently a faculty member of the http://www.iitp.ac.in/~asif/ department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India. His Dr. Sriparna Saha current research interests include Natural Assistant Professor Language Processing, and Machine Department of Computer Science Learning Applications, Information Extraction, Bio‐ and Engineering text Mining and in Social Networks. His h‐index is Indian Institute of Technology Patna 20 and total citation count of his papers is 1100 (according to Google Bihta, Kanpa Road, District – Patna scholar). He is the recipient of the Best Innovative Project Award from Bihar, India – 801118 the INAE, best paper award in ICACCI 2012 etc. Ph: +91-8809559190(m) Email: [email protected] Dr. Sriparna Saha is currently a Faculty Member of http://www.iitp.ac.in/~sriparna/ the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India. She is the author of a book published by Springer‐Verlag. Her current research interests include pattern recognition, multiobjective optimization and biomedical information extraction. Her h‐index is 15 and total citation count of her papers is 1336 (according to Google scholar). She is the recipient of the Lt Rashi Roy Memorial Gold Medal from ISI Kolkata, Google India Women in Engineering Award, 2008, Junior Humboldt Research Fellowship etc.