UB Center for Cognitive Science

Research Groups

Last Update: 14 January 2011, 1:12 P.M.

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Group Day Time Location Contact

Center for Cognitive Science colloquium series Wednesdays 2:00–4:00 P.M. 280 Park William J. Rapaport

Computational Psycholinguistics Lab

Read and discuss current computational and psycholinguistic papers,
as well as ongoing projects being done by various students in the lab.
Wednesdays 12:00 NOON–2:00 P.M. 222–224 Clemens Douglas Roland

Ontology Research Group

ORG is part of the NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences.
It consists of:

The Ontology, Logic & Technology Unit
The Referent Tracking Unit
The Qualitative Spatiotemporal Reasoning Unit

Mondays 4:00 P.M. 141 Park Alan Ruttenberg

Psycholinguistics Laboratory

Focuses on the mental representations and processing mechanisms
involved in the comprehension of sentences and discourses.
Mondays 1:00–2:30 P.M. 366 Park Gail Mauner
645-0219

Semantic Typology Lab

Linguistic categorization is the representation of reality in terms of semantic categories of language,
expressed by words, phrases, and utterances.
Semantic typology is the crosslinguistic study of linguistic categorization.
It asks to what extent and in what respects languages differ in how they represent reality.

Meetings are open to anybody with an interest in semantic typology.
Tuesdays 2:00–3:20 P.M. 617 Baldy Jürgen Bohnemeyer

SNePS Research Group (SNeRG)

The goal of SNeRG is to understand the nature of intelligent cognitive processes,
by developing and experimenting with computational cognitive agents that are able to
use and understand natural language, reason, act, and solve problems in a wide variety of domains.
Our principal research area is knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR)
in support of natural-language-competent autonomous agents.
This includes research in:
logics for KRR
natural-language understanding & generation
cognitive architectures
acting formalisms
belief change
models of time, self, & other agents.

The group is widely known for its development of the SNePS KRR and acting system,
and Cassie, its computerized cognitive agent.
click here for speaker schedule
Fridays 11:00 A.M.–1:30 P.M. 242 Bell Stuart C. Shapiro

Group	Day	Time	Location	Contact
Center for Cognitive Science colloquium series	Wednesdays	2:00–4:00 P.M.	280 Park	William J. Rapaport
Computational Psycholinguistics Lab Read and discuss current computational and psycholinguistic papers, as well as ongoing projects being done by various students in the lab.	Wednesdays	12:00 NOON–2:00 P.M.	222–224 Clemens	Douglas Roland
Ontology Research Group ORG is part of the NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences. It consists of: The Ontology, Logic & Technology Unit The Referent Tracking Unit The Qualitative Spatiotemporal Reasoning Unit	Mondays	4:00 P.M.	141 Park	Alan Ruttenberg
Psycholinguistics Laboratory Focuses on the mental representations and processing mechanisms involved in the comprehension of sentences and discourses.	Mondays	1:00–2:30 P.M.	366 Park	Gail Mauner 645-0219
Semantic Typology Lab Linguistic categorization is the representation of reality in terms of semantic categories of language, expressed by words, phrases, and utterances. Semantic typology is the crosslinguistic study of linguistic categorization. It asks to what extent and in what respects languages differ in how they represent reality. Meetings are open to anybody with an interest in semantic typology.	Tuesdays	2:00–3:20 P.M.	617 Baldy	Jürgen Bohnemeyer
SNePS Research Group (SNeRG) The goal of SNeRG is to understand the nature of intelligent cognitive processes, by developing and experimenting with computational cognitive agents that are able to use and understand natural language, reason, act, and solve problems in a wide variety of domains. Our principal research area is knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR) in support of natural-language-competent autonomous agents. This includes research in: logics for KRR natural-language understanding & generation cognitive architectures acting formalisms belief change models of time, self, & other agents. The group is widely known for its development of the SNePS KRR and acting system, and Cassie, its computerized cognitive agent. click here for speaker schedule	Fridays	11:00 A.M.–1:30 P.M.	242 Bell	Stuart C. Shapiro