LINGUIST List 22.4023 Fri Oct 14 2011 Calls: Cog Sci, Psycholing/ Language and Cognitive Processes (Jrnl) Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Albert Gatt , Language and Cognitive Processes Message 1: Language and Cognitive Processes Date: 14-Oct-2011 From: Albert Gatt <albert.gattum.edu.mt> Subject: Language and Cognitive Processes E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Language and Cognitive Processes Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2012 Special issue of Language and Cognitive Processes Production of Referring Expressions: Models and Empirical Data We invite substantial, original, and unpublished submissions for a special issue of Language and Cognitive Processes on psychologically informed modelling of reference production and experimental work that tests these models. Contributions may focus on computational, experimental, or theoretical approaches to reference. Papers should not exceed 10,000 words (but may be substantially shorter). Editors for this special issue are Roger van Gompel (University of Dundee), Emiel Krahmer (Tilburg University), Albert Gatt (University of Malta), and Kees van Deemter (University of Aberdeen). Questions can be addressed to r.p.g.vangompeldundee.ac.uk Following on the CogSci workshop on the same theme (the PRE-CogSci 2011 workshop, http://pre2011.uvt.nl/) we are pleased to launch this open Call for Papers for Language and Cognitive Processes. Participants at the PRE- CogSci workshop are invited to submit, but this call is in no way restricted to them. Submission procedures are specified below. Language and Cognitive Processes provides an international forum for theoretical and experimental research into the mental processes and representations involved in language use. Apart from research in experimental and developmental psychology, it publishes work derived from linguistics, philosophy, cognitive neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience and computational modelling. One of the most important aspects of communication is the ability to refer. Despite several psycholinguistic studies investigating, we lack precise, psychologically plausible, quantitative models of how people produce referring expressions. The plausibility of existing computational models (as developed, for instance, in computational linguistics) is still a matter of debate. This special LCP issue aims to bring together research on psychologically informed modelling of reference production and experimental work that directly tests them. Possible topics for this issue include: - Reference production in general models of cognitive architecture - Computational reference production algorithms as models of human reference production - Contextual factors in reference production - Selecting the semantic/conceptual content of referring expressions - Realization of referring expressions: word order, prosody - Reference production in interactive settings, audience design, common ground and alignment - Choice of different types of referring expressions (e.g., pronouns and descriptions) - Acquisition of reference - Complex reference (e.g., plural, quantified, vague/imprecise referring expressions) - indefinite noun phrases - gestures and reference - visual scene perception and its influence on the production of referring expressions - social factors in reference - experimental evaluation methods Papers should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/plcp. Authors should select 'Production of referring expressions' for 'Manuscript Type' and one of the special issue editors as the preferred editor from the pull-down list in part 1. At part 5 ('Details and Comments') they should tick the 'yes' box to the question 'is the manuscript a candidate for a special issue?' and write 'Production of referring expressions: Models and empirical data' in the associated free text box. LCP instructions for paper formatting at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/plcpauth.asp should be consulted before completing the online submission. Submission deadline is 1 March 2012 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 14-Oct-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.