IEEE Task Force Language and Cognition

Chair and Vice Chairs

Xavier Hinaut (Inria)

Michael Spranger (Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc.)

Clément Moulin-Frier (Cogitai)

Nikolaos Mavridis (MIT)

Members

• Anna Borghi (Italy)

• Clément Moulin-Frier (France)

• Ian Howard (UK)

• Jean-Christophe Baillie (France)

• Jean-Luc Schwartz (France)

• Katharina Rohlfing (Germany)

• Katerina Pastra (Greece)

• Nikolas Hemion (France)

• Nikolaos Mavridis (US)

• Tadahiro Taniguchi (Japan)

• Anne Warlaumont (US)

• Xavier Hinaut (France)

• Yulia Sandamirskaya (Switzerland)

• Amir Aly (United Kingdom)

Activities by Members

• IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2019 Workshop on language learning

• IROS 2019 Workshop on Language and robotics

• Shonan Meeting on Learning to communicate: Challenges in language learning by AI, robots and humans

• Workshop on Language and Robotics, IEEE IROS 2018

• Course at summer school CARLA 'Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application

• Symposium on Cognitive Computing Thinking Beyond Deep Learning

• Joint Workshop on Architectures and Evaluation for Generality, Autonomy and Progress in AI (AEGAP), IJCAI-ECAI 2018, AAMAS 2018 and ICML 2018

• Joint Workshop on Shared Autonomy at IJCAI-ECAI 2018, AAMAS 2018 and ICML 2018

• EVOSLACE: Workshop on the emergence and evolution of social learning, communication, language and culture in natural and artificial agents at ALIFE 2018

• IROS 2018 Workshop on "Towards Intelligent Social Robots: From Naive Robots to Robot Sapiens”

• Collaborative and multimodal endeavor of language learning. Cognitive Science Colloquium at the University of Toronto, 28. September 2018.

• Pragmatic Frames—a multimodal and interpersonal alternative to mapping a word onto a concept in language acquisition. TRACE-Workshop in Cognitive Science. Normativity in Embodied and Situated Cognition, Brussels 27.–28. June 2018.

• Workshop “Expanding the field” DFT Bootcamp (Norwich, UK, June 7-9, 2018)

• CocoSym2018: Thinking Beyond Deep Learning at City University, London (UK)

• Workshop on "Perceptuo-motor relationships in speech communication" in Geneva, January 2018

• Frontiers Research Topic on Language and Robotics

• Special issue on Varieties of abstract concepts at Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. (in press, 2018)

• 2nd Workshop on Language Learning at 2017 IEEE ICDL-EPIROB September 18th 2017 - Lisbon, Portugal

• 2nd Workshop on Machine Learning Methods for High-Level Cognitive Capabilities in Robotics at IROS September 28th, 2017 - Vancouver, Canada

• EUCognition meeting in Zurich (EUCOG2017), Nov. 23.-24. 2017

• Dynamic Field Theory Summer school in Bochum (Aug. 28. - Sept. 2 2017)

• Interaction Studies Special Section on "Computational and Robotics Models of Language Development" (2016)

• Special Issue on ”Cognitive Robotics" in Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence JETAI (2016)

• Tutorial on Language Learning and Evolution at International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI-15 (July 2015)