NLPCS 2012 - International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science - NLPCS 2012

The aim of this workshop is to foster interactions among researchers and practitioners in Natural Language Processing (NLP) by taking a Cognitive Science perspective.
What characterizes this kind of approach is the fact that NLP is considered from various viewpoints (linguistics, psychology, statistics, computer science, artificial intelligence), and that a deliberate effort is made to reconcile or integrate these viewpoints into a coherent whole.
We believe that this is necessary, as the modeling of the process is simply too complex to be addressed by a single discipline. No matter whether we deal with a natural system (people), an artificial system (computers) or a combination of both (interactive NLP), systems rely on many types of very different knowledge sources. Hence, strategies vary considerably depending on the person (novice, expert), on the available knowledge (internal and external), and on the nature of the information processor : man, machine or both (man-machine communication, interactive NLP).
This being so, any of the following aspects are welcomed : structure, representation and processing of information by different agents (natural, artificial or both) and in different communication modes.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Ontologies
Text mining
Conceptualisation
Meaning construction
Electronic Dictionaries
Evolutionary NLP
Discourse processing
Social cognition of language
Multi-Lingual Processing
Speech Processing
Pragmatics and NLP
Tools and Resources in NLP
Evaluation of NLP Systems
Embodied and situated NLP
Computational Models of NLP
Emotion and language processing
Translation and Machine Translation
Multimodality in speech / text processing
Cognitive and Psychological Models of NLP
Text Summarization and Information Extraction
Natural Language Interfaces and Dialogue Systems