Connectionists: 3rd SMILES workshop in less than one week! (12 sept.)

[Xavier Hinaut]

The 3rd SMILES (Sensorimotor Interaction, Language and Embodiment of Symbols) Workshop will take place both on site and virtually at ICDL 2022 conference.

**9am-6pm UTC+1 (London time) on September 12, 2022**

* Invited talks:
- Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi (University of Warsaw, Poland)
- Joel Z Leibo (DeepMind, London, UK)
- Lorijn Zaadnoordijk (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
- Martin Butz & Christian Gumbsch (University of Tübingen, Germany)
- Ida Momennejad (Microsoft Research NYC, USA)

* Important info:
- Registration: https://forms.gle/No8xFFkmfKXXdNMm7 (if you come onsite, you also need to register here: https://icdl2022.qmul.ac.uk/?page_id=50 )
- Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/smiles-workshop/
- Onsite venue: Graduate Center, Queen Mary University of London, UK. More info here: https://icdl2022.qmul.ac.uk/?page_id=103
- Venue online: via Zoom and Discord group.
- Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/sBZbdSWRvJ (expires after 100 hits)
- Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SMILESconf

* Workshop Short Description
On the one hand, models of sensorimotor interaction are embodied in the environment and in the interaction with other agents. On the other hand, recent Deep Learning development of Natural Language Processing (NLP) models allow to capture increasing language complexity (e.g. compositional representations, word embedding, long term dependencies). However, those NLP models are disembodied in the sense that they are learned from static datasets of text or speech. How can we bridge the gap from low-level sensorimotor interaction to high-level compositional symbolic communication? The SMILES workshop will address this issue through an interdisciplinary approach involving researchers from (but not limited to):
- Sensori-motor learning,
- Symbol grounding and symbol emergence,
- Emergent communication in multi-agent systems,
- Chunking of perceptuo-motor gestures (gestures in a general sense: motor, vocal, ...),
- Compositional representations for communication and action sequence,
- Hierarchical representations of temporal information,
- Language processing and language acquisition in brains and machines,
- Models of animal communication,
- Understanding composition and temporal processing in neural network models, and
- Enaction, active perception, perception-action loop.

* More info
- contact: smiles.conf at gmail.com
- organizers: Xavier Hinaut, Clément Moulin-Frier, Silvia Pagliarini, Joni Zhong, Michael Spranger, Tadahiro Taniguchi, Anne Warlaumont.
- ICDL conference website: https://icdl2022.qmul.ac.uk/

Xavier Hinaut
on behalf of the SMILES workshop organisers:
- Clément Moulin-Frier, Inria and Ensta ParisTech, Bordeaux, France
- Anne Warlaumont, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
- Silvia Pagliarini, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
- Michael Spranger, Sony AI and Sony CSL, Tokyo, Japan
- Tadahiro Taniguchi, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
- Junpei Zhong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China


Xavier Hinaut
Inria Research Scientist
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