Compositionality is a key feature of structured representational systems, be they linguistic, mental or neuronal. A system of representations is compositional just in case the semantic values of complex representations are determined by the semantic values of their parts.
The conference brings together internationally renowned scholars from various disciplines of the cognitive sciences, including philosophers, psychologists, linguists, computer scientists and neuro scientists. The speakers will address the issue of compositionality from very different perspectives. It is the aim of the conference to further the exchange of views on compositionality across the disciplines and to explore the implications and condition of compositionality as a property of representational systems in the study of language, mind and brain.
The conference is the first of a series of two conferences on compositionality. The second one will take place in Paris in summer 2004.
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