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Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Contact Information

Phil Maguire.

Room 2.10 Callan Building,
Department of Computer Science,
National University of Ireland, Maynooth,
Co. Kildare,
Ireland.

E-Mail: pmaguire_at_cs.nuim.ie
Phone: +353 1 7086082
Fax:+353 1 7083848

Research

My research is in the areas of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. In particular, I am interested in topics such as knowledge representation, language comprehension, genetic algorithms, reasoning fallacies, embodied cognition and philosophy of mind.

Publications

Journal Papers:

Maguire, P., Devereux, B., Costello, F. & Cater, A. W. (2007). A Re-Analysis of the CARIN model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 4, 811–821.

Maguire, P., Cater, A. W., & Maguire, R. (2006). The role of experience in the interpretation of noun–noun compounds. Artificial Intelligence Review, 25, 1-2, 139-160.

Peer reviewed conference publications:

Maguire, P., Wisniewski, E. J., & Storms, G. (2007). A corpus analysis of conceptual combination. In S. Vosniadou, D. Kayser, & A. Protopapas (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second European Cognitive Science Conference (pp. 419–424). London: Routledge.

Maguire, P., Maguire, R. & Cater, A. W. (2007). In search of the frog’s tail: investigating the time course of conceptual knowledge activation. In S. Vosniadou, D. Kayser, & A. Protopapas (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second European Cognitive Science Conference. London: Routledge.

Maguire, R., Maguire, P. & Keane, M. T. (2007). Understanding surprise: Can less likely events be less surprising? In S. Vosniadou, D. Kayser, & A. Protopapas (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second European Cognitive Science Conference. London: Routledge.

Maguire, P., Devereux, B., Cater, A., & Costello, F. (2006). A Re-Analysis of the CARIN model. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Maguire, P., Wisniewski, E. J. & Storms, G. (2006). An Investigation of the Productivity of Abstract and Concrete Nouns in Combination. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Maguire, P., Cater, A. W., & Wisniewski, E. J. (2006). The role of ambiguity in the comprehension of noun–noun combinations. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 537–543). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Maguire, P. & Cater, A. W. (2005). The Role of Experience in the Interpretation of Noun-Noun Combinations. In Proceedings of 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Ulster, Ireland.

Maguire, P. & Cater, A. W. (2005). Interpreting Noun-Noun Compounds with Rare Modifiers. In Opwis, K. and Penner, (Eds.), Proceedings of the German Cognitive Science Conference, Basel, Switzerland.

Maguire, P. & Cater, A. W. (2005). Turnip Soup: Head Noun Influence on the Comprehension of Noun-Noun Combinations. In Bara, B. G., Barsalou, L., and Bucciarelli, M.,(Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Maguire, P. & Cater, A. W. (2004). Is Conceptual Combination Influenced by Word Order? In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain.