Cognitive Science Club

That's right: there's another CSC. They're fun, they're interesting, they're in DC 2306C at 4:30 on Wednesday, and they sometimes have timbits. What else could you possibly want? The CSC hosts talks by both faculty and students of Waterloo as well as talks from learned people from other universities. If you're interested in anything related to cognitive science or even philosophy, then you should give it a chance. It's at least worth a shot, eh? [I sure do like timbits! — SheepNinEd]

This week our own Peter Jansen will be speaking. Here's the abstract:
EuroWordNet is a multilingual lexical database constructed in the wake of WordNet. The ontological structure of EuroWordNet's language-indepedent layers, analagous to individual WordNets, through the semantic space of the interlingual index and abstract framework of the top level ontologies will be examined. The semantic nature of the interlingual lexicon will be discussed, and the overall ontological design will be evaluated in light of Gruber's principals for the design of ontologies. The talk will include an introduction to knowledge representation from psychological and computational perspectives, and an introduction to WordNet itself, so that everyone should be able to understand it. This talk is inspired by a paper of mine that was recently published, titled Lexicography in an Interlingual Ontology: An Introduction to EuroWordNet. The paper can be found online at the Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science's website: http://www.sfu.ca/cognitive-science/journal/

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