Location

Bois Le Comte

Address
La Ferme du Bois-le-Comte | Bois-le-Comte 1 | B - 6823 Villers-devant-Orval | Show on map | Travel information
Web
La ferme du Bois-le-Comte
Dates
Friday 8 August - Wednesday 13 August


Schedule

Day Time Description
Friday | Arrival
16:00 - 18:30 History of language game research (Luc Steels)
19:00 Dinner and Welcome
Saturday | Conceptualization with IRL and interaction with FCG
09:15 - 10:45 Tutorial of IRL, coupling to FCG + templates (Luc Steels)
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:20 More complex examples of IRL/FCG (Michael Spranger)
12:30 Lunch
15:00 - 16:00 How IRL networks can be learned (Michael Spranger)
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 - 17:30 General discussion on conceptualisation using IRL. How to start tackling a new domain? Can we come up with a common set of primitives? How to use IRL as interlingua for translation?
17:30 - 18:30 Sport activities
19:00 Dinner
Sunday | Verb phrase case studies and tense and aspect
09:00 - 10:00 English verb phrases (Remi van Trijp)
10:00 - 11:00 Spanish verb phrases (Katrien Beuls)
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 11:45 Dutch verb phrases (Paul van Eecke)
11:45 - 12:30 Weak/strong verbs (Dirk Pijpops)
12:30 Lunch
15:00 - 16:00 Russian verb phrases (Yana Knight and Michael Spranger)
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 - 17:15 Italian verb phrases (Emília Garcia Casademont)
17:30 - 18:30 Sport activities
19:00 Dinner
Monday | New foundations for FCG
09:00 - 10:00 Tutorial on algorithmic complexity (Johan Loeckx)
10:00 - 11:00 Nature and current state of new FCG implementation (Michael Spranger)
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 12:30 Priming networks (Katrien Beuls)
12:30 Lunch
15:00 - 16:00 (English) noun phrases (Remi van Trijp and Miquel Cornudella)
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 - 17:30 Issues in current FCG (general discussion)
17:30 - 18:30 Sport Activities
19:00 Dinner
Tuesday | Evolutionary experiments
09:00 - 10:00 Tutorial on Network Science (Emília Garcia Casademont)
10:00 - 11:00 Fitness landscapes for language evolution (Remi van Trijp)
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 12:30 Input from historical linguistics (Freek van de Velde)
12:30 Lunch
15:00 - 16:00 Using FCG for music (Johan Loeckx)
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 - 17:00 Experiments in hierarchical structure (Emília Garcia Casademont)
17:00 - 17:30 General discussion on evolutionary experiments. What are possible new targets? Where are the difficulties? What are useful measures for tracking evolution?
17:30 - 18:30 Sport Activities
19:00 Dinner
Wednesday | Planning group activity for the next 6 months
09:00 - 10:00 Improving scientific communication of our work (discussion session)
10:00 - 11:00 Education and dissemination activities (discussion session)
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 12:30 Directions for future work (discussion session)
12:30 Lunch and departure

Participants

Luc Steels
Barcelona (UPF)
Katrien Beuls
Brussels (VUB)
Miquel Cornudella
Paris (Sony CSL)
Maria Ferrer
Barcelona (UPF)
Emília Garcia
Barcelona (UPF)
Yana Knight
Brussels (VUB)
Johan Loeckx
Brussels (VUB)
Tânia Marques
University of Edinburgh
Dirk Pijpops
Leuven (KUL)
Michael Spranger
Tokyo (Sony CSL)
Freek Van de Velde
Leuven (KUL)
Paul Van Eecke
Paris (Sony CSL)
Remi van Trijp
Paris (Sony CSL)