Connectionists: AL-EMCOM2025: Workshop on Emergence and Evolution of Language and Communication in ALIFE 2025 Kyoto (Deadline 31 July)

[Takashi Hashimoto]

Dear colleagues,

Here is the Call for Poster presentation of an international workshop in ALIFE 2025 to be held in Kyoto, Japan.

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AL-EMCOM2025: Workshop on Emergence and Evolution of Language and
Communication in ALIFE 2025

Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the AL-EMCOM2025 Workshop as a part of
ALIFE2025, and invite poster presentation submissions from researchers
across various disciplines.

- Dates
Date: October 6-19th, 2025 (tentative)
Venue: Kyoto Industrial Hall, Kyoto, Japan
https://www.ksk.or.jp/

- Aim of the workshop
The emergence of language and communication has been a major theme in
  artificial life research, beginning with studies on the evolution of
  communication protocols (Werner and Dyer 1991), naming games (Steels,
  1995), and iterated learning (Kirby, 2001), with methodologies that have
  expanded across multiple fields including robotics, linguistics, cognitive
  science, evolutionary theory, philosophy, and complex systems sciences.
    In recent years, the rapid advances of large language models have enabled
  artificial intelligence with sophisticated language processing
  capabilities, heightening expectations for AGI. However, numerous
  challenges remain concerning the origins of language—the source of
  "intelligence"—and its grounding in the real world.
    To address these challenges, research on "Emergent Communication," which
  approaches from a constructive perspective based on technological progress
  in deep learning and large language models, has gathered attention.
  Emergent Communication aims to model the process of language emergence and
evolution. It is an interdisciplinary field where various research domains
  intersect, such as symbol emergence robotics, language evolution, and
multi-agent reinforcement learning for communication.
    This workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum where
  researchers from various fields can gather to share and discuss the latest
  research findings on symbol emergence, emergence of communication, and
  language evolution. We hope to return to the foundational principles of
  artificial life research while integrating cutting-edge technologies.
Through this, we seek to explore new research questions and strengthen
  cross-disciplinary collaboration.

- Call for Contributions
We invite poster presentations related to the workshop topics.
Topics of Interest (including but not limited to):
  Symbol emergence and language emergence
  Emergent communication
  Language evolution
  Multi-agent reinforcement learning for communication
  Symbol emergence robotics
  Naming games and language games
  Iterated learning and language change
  Large language models and emergent linguistic phenomena
  Related research areas

- Important Dates
Poster Presentation Submission Deadline: July 31st, 2025
Workshop Date: October 6-10th, 2025 (tentative)

- Tentative Program
Opening and plenary talk: 30 minutes
Poster presentation: 60 minutes
Additional details will be announced

- Abstract submission for poster session
Please prepare a 1-page abstract using the Word template, and send it to
  reiji at nagoya-u.jp
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I-Fwaj_wACDU_4LvOMbl51FaaYoDAme1/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118420447359892240346&rtpof=true&sd=true
The abstracts of the accepted presentations will be compiled into an
  abstract booklet PDF and made publicly available on the workshop website.
At least one author must attend the workshop and present the work in person.
Note that the presenter must register for the main conference.
Deadline: July 31th.

- Contact Information
Organizers:
Reiji Suzuki (Nagoya University, Japan)
Ryo Ueda (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Tadahiro Taniguchi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Contact: reij at nagoya-u.jp

Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/view/al-emcom2025/home


We look forward to your participation and presentations.

Best regards,

AL-EMCOM2025 Organizing Committee

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Takashi Hashimoto <hash at jaist.ac.jp>
https://sites.google.com/view/jaist-hashimoto-lab-eng/
Professor, School of Knowledge Science
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)