CIFCL is an annual event which features on the “Ten Lecture Series” by the invited keynote speakers as well as on the presentations by the participants. So it is an international conference in combination with an intensive training course in a specific field. It is aimed at basic and applied cognitive science research, with a preference for cognitive linguistics. It hosts the latest theories and data from the world's best cognitive scientists with a special focus on language and cognition from disciplines including linguistics, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, artificial intelligence, computer science, and education. Each year, in addition to the core of the forum, that is, the forum speakers' “ten lecture series”, the general participants are invited to submit papers within the whole range of cognitive science. The organizers endeavor to satisfy the general demand from the largest possible research population for latest theories, and for direct communication with the original scholars.