Stanford Humanities Center
Cognition and Language Workshop
Researchers at the cutting edge of linguistics and cognitive science are increasingly studying linguistic communication from the perspective of language as a highly context-sensitive and dynamic system, shaped through the interaction of linguistic competence, social cognitive reasoning, and individualized mental representations of communicative interlocutors and the surrounding environment. This year’s Cognition and Language workshops will focus on experimental and computational approaches to grounded linguistic communication. Questions the workshop will explore include: How do interlocutors successfully ground their language in a discourse context? How does groundedness condition linguistic adaptation? How can we replicate groundedness in the communicative behavior of robots and interactive virtual agents, and what kinds of data are necessary to train these artificial agents?
