text_combined: iee colloq london may groundingrepresentations sharkey mc grounding representations grounding representations grounding representations programme call participation grounding representations integration sensory information natural language processing artificial intelligence neural networks iee colloquium iee computing control division professional group c4 artificial intelligence association british computer society specialist group expert systems society study artificial intelligence simulation behaviour ssaisb monday may 15th 1995 iee colloquium savoy place london england chairs noel sharkey paul mc kevitt department computer science university sheffield england workshop description perhaps famous criticism traditional artificial intelligence computer programs use symbols arbitrarily interpretable see searle 1980 chinese room harnad 1990 symbol grounding problem could example use word apple mean anything common fruit pig nose computer knows relationship symbol others given question possible move notion meaning relationship arbitrary symbols notion intrinsic meaning words provide meaning grounding computer symbols representations physical world aim colloquium take broad look many important issues relating machine intelligence world make accessible recent research integrating information different modalities example important symbol representation grounding role emerging neural network technology one approach link intelligence sensory world visual systems robotic devices another approach work systems integrate information different modalities vision language yet another approach examine human brain relates sensory motor information looks like may long last getting handle age old chinese room symbol grounding problems hence colloquium focus grounding representations colloquium occur one day focus three themes 1 biology development 2 computational models 3 symbol grounding target audience colloquium include engineers scientists neural networks artificial intelligence developmental psychologists cognitive scientists philosophers mind biologists interested application artificial intelligence real world problems programme monday may 15th 1995 introduction 9 00 registration sustenance 10 00 introduction noel sharkey department computer science university sheffield england biology 10 30 neuronal mechanisms language valentino braitenberg max plank institute biological cybernetics tuebingen germany computational models 11 00 natural language exploration information space oliviero stock istituto per la ricerca scientifica e technologica irst trento italy 11 30 visual salience influences natural language descriptions wolfgang maass cognitive science programme universitaet des saarlandes saarbruecken germany 12 00 discussion 12 30 lunch grounding symbols 2 00 grounding language neural networks georg dorffner austrian institute artificial intelligence vienna austria 2 30 observations symbolgrounding combined symbolic connectionist viewpoint john barnden computing research laboratory new mexico usa department computer science university reading england 3 00 sustenance break 3 30 grounding symbols sensorimotor categories neural networks stevan harnad department psychology university southampton england panel discussion questions 4 00 grounding representations chairs invited speakers 4 30 de brief comments paul mc kevitt department computer science university sheffield england 5 00 iche mha ith publication intend publish book colloquium proceedings addresses iee contact sarah leong groups officer institution electrical engineers iee savoy place gb wc2r obl london england uk eu e mail sleong iee org uk sarah leong e mail mbarrett iee org uk martin barrett e mail dpenrose iee org uk david penrose www http www iee org uk ftp ftp iee org uk fax 44 0 171497 3633 phone 44 0 171240 1871 general phone 44 0 171344 8423 direct location institution electrical engineers iee savoy place gb wc2r obl london england uk eu academic 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