Fintan Costello

Biography

Research Interests:

• classification in combined categories
• Computational models of concept combination
• creative natural language

General

Name and Title: 

Dr Fintan Costello BSc, PhD

Position: 

Lecturer

Phone: 

+353 1 716 2918

Email: 

Office: 

CSI / A1.04

Address:
School of Computer Science &
Informatics
Computer Science Building
Belfield Dublin 4

• Research
• Teaching

Research

Research Interests

• Cognitive Science, Categorisation, Classification, Natural language comprehension and production, Artificial Intelligence, bioinformatics

Research Projects

• Sponsor : University College Dublin (UCD)
  Title : A Computational Model of Naive Logic: How people carry out the logical operations of conjunction, disjunction and negation
  Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-03 / 30-AUG-05
  
• Sponsor : Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology (IRCSET)
  Title : Mr Barry Devereux
  Start Date / End Date : 01-OCT-02 / 30-SEP-05
  
• Sponsor : European Commission FP6
  Title : Humans - the analogy-making Species
  Start Date / End Date : 16-OCT-06 / 15-APR-10
  

Teaching

Teaching Interests

Recent Postgraduates