Introduction

摘要

Welcome to the COLING-2018 Workshop on Language, Cognition and Computational Models! Language as a communication tool is one of the key attributes of human society. It is also what distinguishes human communication from most of the other species. Language is, arguably, also what shapes our view of the world. However, language is a complex and intricate tool developed and is continuously evolving over thousands of years, influenced by usage, demographics, and socio-cultural factors. The study of language communication, comprehension and it's complex interaction with thought is a rapidly expanding multi-disciplinary and challenging field of research. This growth comes from both its domain and its interdisciplinary nature that confluences cognitive science, computer science, neuroscience, linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology and many other fields. The development of increasingly sophisticated tools are making it possible to studying different brain activities. A plethora of works have been done studying the representation, organization and processing of language in the human mind. Despite such huge efforts, a coherent picture is yet to emerge. We are yet to go a long-way to develop holistic computational models and make up for the scarcity of corpora in variety of languages.