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Cognitive Science in Bratislava, Slovakia

Cognitive Science in Bratislava, Slovakia. Roadmap of the Talk. History of Cognitive Science in Slovakia Education in CogSci in Slovakia Research & Project Opportunities. History of CogSci in Slovakia. origins in 1980s ...

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Cognitive Science in Bratislava, Slovakia

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  1. Cognitive Sciencein Bratislava, Slovakia

  2. Roadmap of the Talk • History of Cognitive Science in Slovakia • Education in CogSci in Slovakia • Research & Project Opportunities

  3. History of CogSci in Slovakia • origins in 1980s... • paper Kováč L.: Introduction to Cognitive Biology, Biologické listy 53, 1986. • 1990s: seminar Cognitive Science for students of AI (E. Gál) • edition of antology of papers Gál E., Kelemen J.: Myseľ, telo, stroj (Mind – body - machine), 1992.

  4. First interdisciplinary contacts • Prof. Ladislav Kováč –founder of cognitive biology (also at Konrad Lorenz Institute, Altenberg), biochemistry • Prof. Vladimír Kvasnička – theoretical chemistry, neural and evolutionary modeling • Ing. Egon Gál – philosophy of mind • doc. Ján Rybár – cognitive psychology, epistemology • Prof. Jozef Kelemen – AI, multiagent systems • Prof. Ivan Žucha – psychiatry • doc. Martin Kanovský – cognitive anthropology • doc. Ľubica Beňušková – neuroscience, neurogenetics (also at Univ. of Vienna)

  5. History of CogSci in Slovakia – contd. • annual interdisciplinary seminar Cognitive Sciences at the Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology 1998-2001. • first Slovak monography Beňušková Ľ. et al.: Hľadanie spoločného jazyka v kognitívnych vedách (Quest for a Common Language in Cognitive Sciences), 2000.

  6. Annual Czech-Slovak conference Cognition and Artificial Life • 2001 Smolenice, SK • 2002 Mílovy, CZ • 2003 High Tatras, SK • 2004 Hradec nad Moravicí, CZ • 2005 Smolenice, SK • 2006 Třešť, CZ • 2007 Smolenice, SK • 2008 Prague, CZ

  7. Monographies • first Slovak textbook Rybár J. et al. (eds.): Kognitívne vedy (Cognitive Sciences), 2002. • Rybár et al. (eds.): Jazyk a kognícia (Language and Cognition), 2005. • in preparation: Mozog a myseľ (Brain and Mind) • books on related subjects…

  8. Education in Cognitive Science • Middle European Interdisciplinary Master Programme in Cognitive Science • joint Masters Program in Cognitive Science • Faculty of Math., Physics, and Informatics(FMFI UK) • Faculty of Social and Economical Sciences (FSES UK)

  9. Education in Cognitive Science at FMFI UK • MEiCogSci • Cognitive Sciences – 2 semester open whole-university lectures (foreign guests: P. Gärdenfors, W. Haselager, I. M. Havel, J. Kelemen, S.Reiterer, W. van Heuven, M. Kovacevic, M. Mayberry, L. Ropolyi) • related subjects of AI (NN, neurocomputing, knowledge representation, comp. linguisitics, machine learning, cogn. psychology, etc.)

  10. Education in Cognitive Science at FSES UK • MEiCogSci • associated subjects…

  11. Department of Applied Informatics FMFI UK • history: Department of Artificial Intelligence, Institute of Informatics

  12. Structure of KAI FMFI UK • Artificial Intelligence • Computer Graphics • Declarative Programing • Cognitive Science Centre

  13. Research Areas • cognitive modeling with focus on linguistics • cognitive semantics • knowledge representation and dynamic logic programming • neurocomputing • cognitive psychology, filosophy of language, filosophy of cognitive sciences

  14. Cognitive Modeling • Topic: Modeling complex systems with neural networks with focus onlinguistics • People: Igor Farkaš, Mária Markošová • Means: • small-world networks • neural network modeling

  15. Cognitive Modeling – contd. • Small-world networks • typical properties (small average path length b/w two nodes, high clustering),scale-free organization • lexicon as a small-world network (graph whose nodes = words, edges = semantic associations b/w words) • growing networks, analysis of dynamics • Neural network modeling • focus on recurrent self-organizing models and echo state networks • representing sequences and trees - modeling language learning (e.g. via next-word prediction task)

  16. Cognitive Modeling – contd. • Recently published results (selected): • I. Farkas, M. Crocker: Recurrent networks and natural language: exploiting self-organization. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 1275-1280, 2006. • I. Farkas: Self-organization as a driving force for dynamic patterns of activity in brain and mind (in Slovak). In J. Kelemen J. and V. Kvasnicka (Eds.): Cognition and artificial life VI, Trest, Czech Republic, pp. 143-148, 2006. • P. Tino, I. Farkas, J. van Mourik: Dynamics and Topographic Organization of Recursive Self-Organizing Maps. Neural Computation, 18, pp. 2529-2567, 2006. • M. Markosova: Language as a small world network (in Slovak), in Language and cognition, editors Rybar, Kvasnicka, Farkas, Kalligram, Bratislava, 2005, page 306

  17. Cognitive Semantics, Modeling of Language Origins and Acquisition • Topic: Cognitive Semantics for Dynamic Environments • Symbol Grounding: Building semantic representations from scratch by sensory motor and linguistic interactions with the environment and community • Interactions between language and meanings in the acquisition process • Influence of the dynamics of interactions • People: Martin Takáč + students • Means: Multi-agent systems simulations

  18. Cognitive Semantics, Modeling of Language Origins and Acquisition – contd. • Recently published results (selected): • Takáč, M.: Autonomous Construction of Ecologically and Socially Relevant Semantics. Cognitive Systems Research, in press. • Takáč, M.: Construction of Meanings in Living and Artificial Agents. In: Trajkovski, G., Collins, S. G. (eds.): Agent-Based Societies: Social and Cultural Interactions, IGI Global, Hershey, PA, in press. • Takáč, M.: Categorization by Sensory-Motor Interaction in Artificial Agents, in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Trieste, Italy, 2006.

  19. Knowledge representation • Topics: • Logic-based knowledge representation. • Nonmonotonic reasoning. • Logicprogramming. • Dynamic logic programming. • Belief revision. • Descriptionlogics, ontologies, semantic web. • Modal logics. • People: Ján Šefránek + students

  20. Knowledge representation– contd. • Recently published results (selected): • Martin Homola: Dynamic Logic Programming: Various Semantics are Equivalenton Acyclic Programs. In Leite, Torroni (eds.) Computational Logic inMulti-Agent Systems. Springer 2005. • Jozef Siska: Dynamic Logic Programming and world state evaluation incomputer games. Proc. of the Workshop on Logic Programming, WLP, Vienna,2006: 64-70 • Jan Sefranek: Irrelevant updates and nonmonotonic assumtions. Logics inArtificla Intelligence. Springer 2006. • Jan Sefranek: Rethinking semanticsof dynamic logic programming. Proc. of the Workshop on NonmonotonicReasoning, NMR 2006, Lake District, UK • Jan Sefranek and Jozef Siska:Irrelevant updates of nonmonotonic knowledge bases. Proc. of the EuropeanConference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2006) • Jan Sefranek:Nonmonotonic integrity constraints. 10th Workshop on logic programming(WLP), Vienna 2006 • Jan Sefranek: Semantic considerations on rejection Proc. of NMR 2004, Whistler, BC, Canada.

  21. Computational Neurogenetics • Topic: • Computational Modelling of Genes, Proteins and Brain Functions - the world’s first theoretical framework and original computational models of biologically plausible artificial neural networks that simulate neural activity of certain brain areas in relation to internal networks of genes • People: • Ľubica Beňušková (Director of the Center for Neuroinformatics and Brain Study http://www.aut.ac.nz/research/research_institutes/kedri/research_centres/centre_for_neuroinformatics_and_brain_study/ )

  22. Computational Neurogenetics • Recently published results (selected): • Benuskova L. and Kasabov N. (2007) Computational Neurogenetic Modeling. Springer, New York. • Kasabov N. and Benuskova L. (2005) Neuro-, genetic-, and neurogenetic information processing. In: Handbook of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, vol X, pp. 1-38, M. Rieth and W. Schommers (eds), American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles. • Kasabov N. and Benuskova L. (2004) Computational neurogenetics. Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, 1(1): 47-61.

  23. Cognitive Science Centre • Topic: Philosophical problems of Cognitive Science • Ján Rybár (popularization of cognitive science, cognitive psychology, optical illusions) • Dezider Kamhal (philosophy of language, speech acts theory, pragmatics, L. Wittgenstein)

  24. Related AI research • Topics: • expert systems • speech recognition and synthesis • quantum computing • parallel computing • declarative programming • robotics

  25. Joint Laboratoryof Mobile Robotics • Topics: teleoperated mobile robotics, autonomous mobile robotics,image processing, articial intelligence, sensor fusion,embedded systems, multi-agent systems, wirelesscommunications, education / e-learning • People: Richard Balogh, Andy Lúčny, Pavel Petrovič • www.robotika.sk

  26. Thank you for your attention... • This presentation can be found athttp://www.ii.fmph.uniba.sk/~takac/ICS/zdroje/CogSciBA.ppt

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