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<p><a href="http://www.fizyka.umk.pl/~duch/">W<STRIKE>l</STRIKE>odzis<STRIKE>l</STRIKE>aw Duch</a>, Nicolaus
Copernicus University, Poland
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<strong><a href="duch.shtml">Neurocognitive Approach to Natural Language Understanding and Creativity</a></strong>
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<p>"High-level brain functions involve thinking, reasoning, planning and language, all based on the use of symbols. How are these symbols represented in the brain, and how to model brain processes to reach high level of linguistic competence? <a href="duch.shtml">..." abstract</a>
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<a href="http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/">Ron Sun</a>, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
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<strong><a href="sun.shtml">Cognitive Architectures and  Cognitive Social Simulation</a></strong>
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"In this talk, I will focus on the relationship between cognitive modeling and social simulation --- the two currently important endeavors in social and behavioral sciences based on computational intelligence.
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<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/staffdir/plsql/gsys_fonct.properties?pLang=EN&pSernum=43634">Kimmo Rossi</a>, European Commission, Luxembourg
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<strong><a href="rossi.shtml">Language Technology
and Machine Translation in the European Funding Programmes:
the Quest for a New Paradigm</a></strong>
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"In the long and sometimes painful history of machine translation,
promising progress started to emerge when systems were made to learn
to translate instead of being programmed to do so. The current
statistical machine translation (SMT) paradigm can be seen as the
first generation<a href="rossi.shtml">..." abstract</a>
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<a href="http://www.lce.hut.fi/~harri/">Harri Valpola</a>, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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<strong><a href="valpola.shtml">From Raw Data to Abstract Concepts</a></strong>
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"Our brain can learn abstracts concepts and give meaning to the raw data provided by the senses. Vision, for instance, is not really about building a 3D model of the external world but rather about understanding the meaning of what is out there.
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Prof. <a href="http://samos.univ-paris1.fr/spip/-Marie-Cottrell-">Marie Cottrell</a>, Paris University 1, France
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<h2 align="left"><font color="#0066CC">Keynote speakers of <a href="http://www.estsp.org/index.php?pg=pgm">ESTSP'08</a></font></h2>
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<li>Sven Crone, Lancaster University, UK
<li>José Príncipe, University of Florida, USA
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The participants of AKRR'08 are also welcome to follow the keynotes of
ESTSP'08 and vice versa.

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