Title: Neurocognitive approach to language

Related projects: Creativity, Medical information retrieval, humanized interfaces,

Focus on word games and medical domain.

Some talks are here; papers are below.
Julian Szymański has a number of serwers showing some programs developed in our project: 20 Q | visual Wordnet | visual Wiki | UMLS visualization.

• Duch W, Memetics and Neural Models of Conspiracy Theories.
  Patterns. Cell Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2021.100353
• Dobosz K, Duch W, Visualization for Understanding of Neurodynamical Systems.
  Cognitive Neurodynamics 5(2), 145-160, 2011.
• Duch W, Neurodynamics and the mind.
  Proc. of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, San Jose, CA, IEEE Press, pp. 3227--3234, 2011.
  Presented at the IJCNN 2011, San Jose, special session "What Neural Modeling Tells Us about Ourselves''.
• Dobosz K, Duch W. (2010) Understanding Neurodynamical Systems via Fuzzy Symbolic Dynamics.
  Neural Networks Vol. 23, 487-496, 2010
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2009.12.005
• Duch W, Neurocognitive Informatics Manifesto.
  In: Series of Information and Management Sciences, California Polytechnic State University, 8th Int Conf on Information and Management Sciences (IMS 2009), Kunming-Banna, Yunan, China, pp. 264-282.
• Pilichowski M, Duch W, Neurocognitive Approach to Creativity in the Domain of Word-invention.
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5507, pp. 88–96, 2009. Online doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-03040-6_11
  In: Köppen, M., Kasabov, N., Coghill, G. (Eds.): 15th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2008), Auckland, New Zealand, November 25-28, 2008, Part II.
• Matykiewicz P, Duch W, Zender P.M, Crutcher K.A, Pestian J.P, Neurocognitive approach to clustering of PubMed query results.
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5507, pp. 70–79, 2009. Online doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-03040-6_9
  In: Köppen, M., Kasabov, N., Coghill, G. (Eds.): 15th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2008), Auckland, New Zealand, November 25-28, 2008, Part II.
• Duch W, Matykiewicz P, and Pestian J, Neurolinguistic Approach to Natural Language Processing with Applications to Medical Text Analysis. | Abstract and PDF file.
  Neural Networks 21(10), 1500-1510, 2008 (on-line from Science Direct).
  This paper presents a practical algorithm to re-create neural pathways used in spreading activation in the brain.

• Duch W, Matykiewicz P, Pestian J, Neurolinguistic Approach to Vector Representation of Medical Concepts.
  Proc. of the 20th Int. Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Orlando, IEEE Press, August 12-17, 2007, pp. 3110-3115.
  Relation between spreading activation in the brain and vector models.

• Duch W, Matykiewicz P, Pestian J, Towards Understanding of Natural Language: Neurocognitive Inspirations.
  Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4668, 953–962, 2007.

Also relevant to NLP, but less to neuroscience:

• Duch W, Dobosz K, Attractors in Neurodynamical Systems.
  Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics II (eds. R. Wang, F. Gu), pp. 157-161, 2011
• Szymański J, Duch W, Representation of hypertext documents based on terms, links and text compressibility
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 6443, pp. 282-289, 2010.
  Presented at the 18th International Conference on Neural Information Processing 2010, Sydney, Australia.

• Szymański J, Duch W, Dynamic Semantic Visual Information Management.
  In: Series of Information and Management Sciences, California Polytechnic State University, 9th Int Conf on Information and Management Sciences (IMS 2010), pp. 130-138.
  Presented at the Ninth International Conference on Information and Management Sciences (IMS 2010), Urumchi, China, 11-19.08.2010.
• Matykiewicz P, Duch W, Pestian J.P, Clustering semantic spaces of suicide notes and newsgroups articles.
  Proceedings of BioNLP Workshop, ACL, pp. 179-184, 2009.
  Presented at BioNLP Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, June 4-5, 2009
• Duch W, Oentaryo R.J, Pasquier M, Cognitive architectures: where do we go from here? | PDF file.
  In: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 171 (Ed. by Pei Wang, Ben Goertzel, and Stan Franklin), IOS Press, pp. 122-136.

• Itert L, Duch W, Pestian J, Influence of a priori Knowledge on Medical Document Categorization,
  IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Data Mining, IEEE Press, April 2007, pp. 163-170.
• Pestian J, Brew C, Matykiewicz P, Hovermale D.J, Johnson N, Cohen K.B, Duch W, A shared task involving multi-label classification of clinical free text. BioNLP 2007: Biological, translational, and clinical language processing, pp. 97–104, ACL 2007.
  Data for the Challenge is at the CMS site.
• Szymanski J, Sarnatowicz T, Duch W, Towards Avatars with Artificial Minds: Role of Semantic Memory.
  Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence, American Scientific Publishers, 1(2), xxx, 2007 (in print)
• Szymanski J, Duch W, Semantic Memory Knowledge Acquisition Through Active Dialogues.
  Proc. of the 20th Int. Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Orlando, IEEE Press, August 2007, pp. 536-541
• Szymanski J, Duch W, Semantic Memory Architecture for Knowledge Acquisition and Management.
  The Sixth International Conference on Information and Management Sciences (IMS2007), July 1-6, 2007, California Polytechnic State University, CA, pp. 342-348
• Duch W, Intuition, Insight, Imagination and Creativity (PDF). IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine 2(3), August 2007, pp. 40-52


• Duch W, Pilichowski M, Experiments with computational creativity. Neural Information Processing – Letters and Reviews, Vol. 11, No. 4-6, April/June 2007, pp. 123-133


• Duch W, Creativity and the Brain, In: A Handbook of Creativity for Teachers. Ed. Ai-Girl Tan, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing 2007, pp. 507-530.


• Duch W, Computational Creativity. World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI'06), Vancouver, 16-21 July 2006, IEEE Press, pp. 1162-1169
• Matykiewicz P, Duch W, Pestian J, Nonambiguous Concept Mapping in Medical Domain,
  Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 4029, 941-950, 2006
• Pestian J.P, Itert L, Andersen C, Duch W, Preparing Clinical Text for Use in Biomedical Research.
  Journal of Database Management 17(2), 1-11, 2006.
• Itert L, Duch W, Pestian J, Medical document categorization using a priori knowledge,
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3696, 641-646, 2005
• Szymanski J, Sarnatowicz T, Duch W, Semantic memory for avatars in cyberspace.
  2005 International Conference on Cyberworlds, Singapore 23-25 Nov. 2005, T.L. Kunii, S.H. Soon and A. Sourin (eds), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 165-171
• Duch W, Szymanski J, Sarnatowicz T, Concept description vectors and the 20 question game.
  Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining, Advances in Soft Computing, Springer Verlag, ISBN 3-540-25056-5 (Eds. Klopotek, M.A., Wierzchon, S.T., Trojanowski, K.), pp. 41-50, 2005.
• Duch W, Matykiewicz, P. Minimum Spanning Trees Displaying Semantic Similarity.
  Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining, Advances in Soft Computing, Springer Verlag, ISBN 3-540-25056-5 (Eds. Klopotek, M.A., Wierzchon, S.T., Trojanowski, K.), pp. 31-40, 2005.

Some relevant issues:

• Sabine Ploux, semantic atlas and neurolexicality, see interactive semantic atlas here.
• J.R. Binder, Toward a brain-based componential semantic representation, Cogn Neuropsychol. 2016
• Organizational Principles of Abstract Words in the Human Brain, X. Wang ... J.R. Binder
• Tensor Flow: Vector Representations of Words.
• Wiki on Vector Space Models.

  Additional links: creativity

• Erik Mueller Daydreamer
• Creative templates in advertising: J. Goldenberg, D. Mazursky, S. Solomon.
• Mario Tokoro & Ken Mogi, Creativity and the brain. World Scientific 2007
• Kenneth M. Heilman, Creativity and the Brain, Psychology Press, 2005

Links to other Duch-Lab projects, many talks and to other papers on various subjects.