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ISD8
The Image Schema Day 2024
Proceedings of The Eighth Image Schema Day 2024
Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, November 27-28, 2024
co-located with
23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for
Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2024)
Edited by
Maria M. Hedblom | Oliver Kutz
The Eighth Image Schema Day (ISD8), November 27-28, 2024, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
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Preface
The Image Schema Day Workshop Series
Highly interdisciplinary, research on image schemas takes inspiration from the background
in cognitive linguistics where Johnson (1987) described an image schema as “. . . a recurring,
dynamic pattern of our perceptual interactions and motor programs that gives coherence and
structure to our experience.” Today, the research area encompasses several disciplines interested
in embodied cognition, spatiotemporal reasoning and abstract thinking.
Often thought of as cognitive patterns describing spatial relations and movements, image
schemas are studied in psychology and linguistics as a format of thought, and applied in
computer science and robotics as a means to represent complex concepts and model behaviour.
Simultaneously, studies in visualisation, art and human-computer interaction use image schemas
as a mental shortcut to capture meaning and produce incentives to action.
Being an interdisciplinary research field allows for a level of research emergence that rarely
takes place in more traditionally focused disciplines. Building on that premise, the Image Schema
Day (ISD) workshop series was introduced to provide a venue for people of any discipline to
discuss their work. Since 2015, when the first ISD was held in Bozen-Bolzano as an invite-only
experiment, the workshop series has grown in both size and disciplinary variance as each
edition has consisted of a plethora of topics that all centred on that one central notion: image
schemas and conceptual primitives.
The first five instances of the ISD were annually held in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. The first two
as independent invite-only events. ISD3 took part in the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO
2017) (see https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2017/) and editions ISD4 and ISD5 were part in the first
two instances of the umbrella event TriCoLore: Creativity, Cognition and Computation (see
https://tricolore.inf.unibz.it). Spreading its wings, perhaps as a response to the pandemic travel
restrictions, ISD6 was held in Jönköping, Sweden, for a 2-day independent workshop. ISD7 took
part in the workshop program of The 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge
Representation and Reasoning (KR 2023) on the beachfront adjacent to the turquoise waters of
Rhodes, Greece.
The Eighth Image Schema Day (ISD8)
Returning to Bozen-Bolzano, the ISD8 workshop took part in the workshop program of the
23rd Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2023) (see https:
//aixia2024.events.unibz.it/). As the city recently left the autumn season, it prepared for the
region’s largest Christmas market. Thus, the workshop participants experienced temperatures
around zero degrees while bathing in the wonderful sunlight.
As one of the larger workshops at AI*IA, two days were filled with scientific presentations,
keynotes and other intellectual exchanges.
The workshop’s first keynote speaker was Prof. John Bateman from Bremen University (DE).
He discussed the importance of image-schematic relationships in audiovisual communication
in films. His talk “Image schemas, cognitive metaphor, and film: bridging discourses” engaged
the audience by including a series of film sequences from everything from Hitchcock’s horror
movies to children’s animation.
The second keynote speaker was Prof. Zoe Falomir from Umeå University (SE). In her talk
“Spatial representations and image schemas for symbol grounding and reasoning” she kept the
audience engaged by quizzing them on logical problem-solving by folding papers and twisting
dice.
The workshop also included the tutorial “Cognitively Inspired Reasoning for Reactive Robotics
- From Image Schemas to Knowledge Enrichment” hosted by Dr Mihai Hawkin1 from Bremen
University (DE), Dr Stefano De Giorgis from CNR-ISTC (IT), and Dr Nikolaos Tsiogkas from KU
Leuven (BE). Through engaging presentations and hands-on activities, the tutorial offered the
participants an opportunity to learn how to extract image-schematic relationships from video
clips through a combination of computer vision and semantic technologies.
The final component of the workshop was a merger with the “ART AFTER AI” event, where
the participants of ISD8 had the opportunity to attend the art exhibition followed by a joined
panel on the topic “Crossing Educational Boundaries”, moderated by Antonella De Angeli
(Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) and with the following panelists: John Bateman (University
of Bremen), Federico Bomba (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Sineglossa), Gabriella
Cortellessa (CNR - National Research Council of Italy), Monica Landoni (USI Università della
Svizzera italiana), and Mateusz Miroslaw Lis (SophIA).
The papers in this volume have been peer-reviewed and they consist of the following topics:
Baur et al presents work on using physical components for embodied representations of image
schemas. Neugaertner takes a historic look into and analyses the graphical language of Isotype.
Hedblom presents initial thoughts on how conceptual primitives from the five senses could be
formally approached. Olearo et al talks about how diffusion models can approach conceptual
blending. Leemhuis and Kutz presents an analysis of how “betweenness” can be considered an
additional image-schematic notion. Stufano Melone et al takes a look at the urban landscape and
performs an ontological analysis of the notion of a ‘square’. De Giorgis and Righetti use LLM in
order to expand the image-schema catalog. De Giorgis uses LLMs for knowledge enrichment
for the force image schema. Nikolaienko performs an analysis of the prevalence of left and
right orientations in dream journals. Diesner presents the results of a pilot study on using an
embodied approach of treating Broca’s aphasia.
1
Formerly Mihai Pomarlan
Contributions in this volume
Keynote
• John Bateman.
Image Schemas, Cognitive Metaphor, and Film: Bridging Discourses
• Zoe Falomir.
Spatial Representations and Image Schemas for Symbol Grounding and Reasoning
Tutorial Report
• Mihai Hawkin, Stefano De Giorgis and Nikolaos Tsiogkas.
Cognitively Inspired Reasoning for Reactive Robotics - From Image Schemas to Knowledge
Enrichment
Abstracts for presentation only
• Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis.
Justice ‘Under’ Law? Image Schemas and Spatial Reasoning in Legal Discourse
• Henri-Jacques Geiss, Justus Piater and Alejandro Agostini.
Building a Curious Agent that Learns to Plan with Images Schemas
Papers
• Cordula Baur, Fredrik Stamm, Carolin Wienrich and Jörn Hurtienne.
Multimodal meets Intuitive? Comparing Visual and Tangible Image Schema Representa-
tions
• Sandra Neugaertner.
Generalized Between Icon, Symbol and Index: The Physical Dimension in Isotype and
Unicode
• Maria M. Hedblom.
Beyond Space and Time: An Initial Sketch of Formal Accounts to Non-Spatiotemporal
Conceptual Sensory Primitives
• Lorenzo Olearo, Giorgio Longari, Simone Melzi, Alessandro Raganato and Rafael Peñaloza.
How to Blend Concepts in Diffusion Models
• Mena Leemhuis and Oliver Kutz.
The Boat, the House and the In-Between: Conceptual Blending as Betweenness Relation
• Maria Rosaria Stufano Melone, Stefano Borgo and Domenico Camarda.
Image Schema and Ontology-based Rules to Support Planning Activities: A Study of the
Urban Square
• Stefano De Giorgis and Guendalina Righetti.
“The Time for Action has Arrived”: Extending the IS Catalogue Leveraging Large Language
Models
• Stefano De Giorgis.
May the FORCE be with Semantics: exploiting LLMs to Image Schematic Knowledge
Enrichment
• Valeriia Nikolaienko.
Left-Right Spatial Orientation in Dream Reports: Image Schemas and Interactional Dy-
namics
• Daniela Diesner.
An Embodied Approach to Treating Aphasia: __ Missing ___ Prepositions and Bringing
Them In
Organisation and Program Committee
Workshop Chairs and Proceedings Editors
Maria M. Hedblom Jönköping University, Sweden
Oliver Kutz Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Program Committee
Stefano Borgo Laboratory for Applied Ontology CNR-ISTC, Italy
Roberto Confalonieri Department of Mathematics, University of Padova, Italy
Stefano De Giorgis Semantic Technology Laboratory, CNR-ISTC, Italy
Stephan Huber Psychological Ergonomics, Julius-Maximilians-Universität
Würzburg, Germany
Jamie MacBeth Department of Computer Science, Smith College, US
Todd Oakley Department of Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University,
US
María Sandra Peña Cervel Department Filologías Modernas, University of Rioja, Spain
Rafael Peñaloza Information and Knowledge Representation, Retrieval and Reason-
ing Laboratory, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Mihai Hawkin Applied Linguistics Department, University of Bremen, Germany
Guendalina Righetti Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo, Norway
Marco Schorlemmer Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), CSIC, Spain
Dennis Tay Department of English and Communication, The Hong Kong Poly-
technic University, Hong Kong