Speakers: Thomas Hills, Ding Nai, Cai Qing, Li Ying, Li Luan, Chen Juqiang
Abstract
Against the background of deep integration among cognitive science, linguistics, and data science, how humans acquire, process, and represent language, and how artificial intelligence encodes complex linguistic structures, have become core topics of interdisciplinary exploration. This Workshop on Language, Computation, and Data Science: Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Research brings together six distinguished scholars from top universities and research institutions at home and abroad. It aims to build a platform for cutting‑edge dialogue, focusing on in‑depth discussions of the computational mechanisms and evolutionary principles underlying language and cognition.
Speaker Profiles
Thomas T. Hills
Professor, University of Warwick
Topic: Aging as cognitive enrichment
Ding Nai
Professor, Zhejiang University
Topic: Why do humans and LLMs encode linguistic structure?
Cai Qing
Professor, East China Normal University
Topic: Traces of language experience: From multimodal environmental shaping to neural semantic representation
Li Ying
Associate Researcher, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Topic: How cognitive selection shapes language evolution
Li Luan
Tenure-Track Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Topic: Constructing and modeling the child semantic space
Chen Juqiang
Tenure-Track Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Topic: Network modeling of lexical impairments in the neurogenic populations