Connectionists: Call for Abstracts: SMILES 2025 Workshop @ICDL (Prague, Sept 16)

[Xavier Hinaut]

Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the SMILES 2025 Workshop (Sensorimotor Interaction, Language and Embodiment of Symbols), which will take place on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, as part of the ICDL 2025 Conference in Prague, Czech Republic.

Workshop website:
https://sites.google.com/view/smiles-workshop/
ICDL 2025 conference site:
https://icdl2025.fel.cvut.cz/

📢 Call for Abstracts
We invite contributions exploring the connection between sensorimotor interaction, symbolic communication, and language emergence. Interdisciplinary approaches are welcome.
Deadline: August 31, 2025
Length: ½ page to 2 pages
Format: IEEE conference template
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
Submission email: smiles.conf at gmail.com
Please indicate if you plan to present onsite or remotely.

🧠 Workshop Focus
SMILES addresses the gap between low-level sensorimotor interaction and high-level symbolic communication, bringing together researchers working on:
Sensorimotor learning and developmental robotics
Emergent communication in multi-agent systems
Gesture and sequence chunking (motor, vocal, multimodal)
Symbol grounding and symbol emergence
Compositional and hierarchical representations for action and language
Language acquisition and processing in humans and machines
Temporal dynamics in neural network models
Enaction, perception-action loops, and active sensing
Animal communication and comparative models

Organizers: Xavier Hinaut, Laura Cohen, Alex Pitti
Contact: smiles.conf at gmail.com
Invited speakers: To be announced soon
Workshop date: September 16, 2025, 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
We look forward to your contributions!
Best regards,
The SMILES 2025 Organizing Committee

Xavier Hinaut
Inria Research Scientist
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