Dear Jun Wang,

Could you please announce the following school on the Langev list?

Thank you,

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International School on Semiotic Dynamics, Language and Complexity
Directors: Vittorio Loreto and Luc Steels
Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center For Scientific Culture
Erice, 12-15 December 2005

http://www.csl.sony.fr/tagora2005/

Semiotic Dynamics studies how the relations between language, concepts
expressed by language, and the objects language is about evolve in
populations of agents. Recently, social tagging sites and other types of
community software systems are showing a very vital new form of semiotic
dynamics. Millions of users now participate in tagging objects and in
coordinating tags and the categories they imply.

From a scientific point of view, these developments are very exciting
because they can be tracked in real time and the tools of complex
systems science and cognitive science can be used to study them.

This School in the beautiful city of Erice is the first school ever to
focus on these phenomena. You will be able to attend top lecturers who
will report on the phenomena themselves, on human semiotic dynamics that
can be a source of inspiration for creating new types of social sharing,
and on tools that can be used to model and study the phenomena,
particularly their statistical properties. You can also participate in
hands-on workshops to quickly enter into this exciting new field and you
will have the opportunity to present your own work.

You can find more information about the School, speakers and
registration on the following website:

http://www.csl.sony.fr/tagora2005/

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Remi van Trijp

Assistant Researcher
Sony Computer Science Laboratory
Language Group
6, Rue Amyot
75005 Paris

PhD Student
Department of Linguistics
University of Antwerp

+33 1 44 08 05 06
http://www.remivantrijp.be
remi@...

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