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The Computational Cognitive Systems group

We conduct research on adaptive, autonomous and socio-culturally grounded cognitive systems that are able to learn and use language. We apply and develop computational methods, models and frameworks for adaptive machine translation and socio-cognitive multiagent systems.

Main research areas

• Emergence of linguistic and cognitive features and structures
• Learning social interactions
• Translation within and between languages: Learning to Translate
• Knowledge translation and innovation

Contact

• Dr. Timo Honkela, timo.honkela at tkk.fi
• Dr. Krista Lagus, krista.lagus at tkk.fi
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Courses

Current and future

• T-61.5020 Statistical Natural Language Processing P (5 cr)

Past

• T-61.6090 Special Course in Language Technology P (3-10 cr)
  • Autumn 2011: Symbol grounding. Associating abstract words with the physical world
  • Autumn 2009: Computational modeling of sentence level phenomena
  • Autumn 2007: Emergence of early cognition, communication and language: from humans to machines
  • Autumn 2006: Finnish-Swedish Machine Translation Challenge
  • Autumn 2005: Statistical Machine Translation
  • Autumn 2004: The evolution of language and cognition: modeling perspectives
• T-61.6050 Special Course in Computer and Information Science V P (3-10 cr)
  • Autumn 2010: Adaptive Informatics for Wellbeing

Projects

In addition to the basic research conducted within the framework of the Center of Excellence funded by the Academy of Finland, we are involved in the following externally funded projects:

Current

• META-NET Network of Excellence (2010-2013)
• EIT ICT Labs activity: Wellbeing Innovation Camp (2010-)
• Media Map
• VirtualCoach
• Language and Movement

Past

• ContentFactory (2009-2010)
• KULTA: Modeling Changing Needs of Consumers (2006-2009).
• MedIEQ: Quality Labeling of Medical Web Content (2006-2008).
  See also publications at the MEDIEQ web site.

Events

• In September 2012, we organized a META-NET workshop on Machine Translation and Multimodal Contexts at Lausanne, Switzerland as a special session in ICANN 2012.
• In May 2012, we contributed to the organization of the first Federated Computer Science Event, at the Kumpula campus of the University of Helsinki.
• In January 2012, we organized a seminar on Computational Linguistics, cognitive science and sociology at Congress Centre Dipoli.
• In August 2011, the first part of this year's Well-being innovation camp, a summer school on health and well-being, has held in Vierimäki.
• In June 2011, we were involved in organizing ICANN'11, an international conference on artificial neural networks with the topic "Machine learning re-inspired by brain and cognition".
• In August and September 2010, we were involved in organizing MLSP 2010, an IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing.
• In August 2010, we were involved in organizing STeP 2010, the 14th Finnish conference on Artificial Intelligence.
• In September 2008, we organized AKRR'08 conference on Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.
• In November 2006, we were involved in organizing SCAI 2006, Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
• Within the KULTA project, Timo Honkela visited California in November 2006, including visits to Stanford University, Google, Nokia RC Palo Alto, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Barbara.
• In June 2005, we organized AKRR'05 conference on Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.