Fifth International Conference on Analogy

Analogy 2024, the Fifth International Conference on Analogy will be held on July 23 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands at the University of Amsterdam. The first and second analogy conferences were held in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1998 and 2009, the third in Dijon, France in 2013, and the fourth in Paris, France in 2017.

Analogy 2024 is organized to facilitate easy attendance for people attending the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - CogSci - scheduled to take place in Rotterdam from 24-27 July 2024.

This short one-day analogy conference will be organized around a few symposia posing some central questions in the analogy research, thus facilitating productive discussion around specific questions that will constitute the topics of the symposia. A poster session will also be included. 

This format means that there will not be “traditional” research paper talks and no proceedings. An online book of abstracts will be published on this website. 

The official language of the conference is English.

Confirmed Symposia 

Has Analogical Reasoning Emerged in LLMs?

Organizers: Taylor Webb (University of California, Los Angeles), Claire Stevenson (University of Amsterdam)

Speakers: Taylor Webb (University of California, Los Angeles), Ellie Pavlick (Brown University), Eunice Yiu (University of California, Berkeley), Martha Lewis (University of Bristol)

Moderator: Claire Stevenson (University of Amsterdam)

Computational Models of Structure-based Cognition

Organizer: Nick Ichien (University of Pennsylvania) 

Speakers: Rachel Flood Heaton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne), Cas Coopmans (Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging), Abhishek Dedhe (Carnegie Melon University), Bonan Zhao (Princeton University)

Moderator: Nick Ichien (University of Pennsylvania) 

Analogy in Learning and Education

Organizer: Lindsey Richland (University of California, Irvine)

Speakers: Dedre Gentner (Northwestern University), Jean-Pierre Thibaut (University of Bourgogne), Micah Goldwater (University of Sydney), Lindsey Richland (University of California, Irvine)

Moderator: Jean-Pierre Thibaut (University of Bourgogne)

Registration is now open! 

Attendees not directly involved in a symposium will be able to present a poster.

For each poster, a 400-word abstract will be required. There will be a light reviewing process for these abstracts. 

Presenter Guidelines

Flash-Talk Presenters

• Each presenter will have 5 minutes for presenting their talk, followed by 2 minutes for Questions and Answers

Poster Presenters

• Portrait/vertical orientation

• Poster size:

  • 1250 mm high x 1000 mm wide (49 inches high x 39 inches wide)

  • A0 (1189 mm x 841 mm)

  • You do not need to use the full space. Push pins will be provided for you to adhere the poster to the board. 

• You can order printing of your poster here (Please, allow at least 24 hours for the service). Printerette Amsterdam Roetersstraat Store is across the street from the conference location

Important dates

May 15, 2024 - Poster submission is now closed.

May 20, 2024 - Notifications sent

June 15, 2024 - Registration deadline. Click here to register!

Registration fee

75 Euro

Local organizing committee

Claire Stevenson, University of Amsterdam

Margarita Pavlova, New Bulgarian University