CNS 2025 - Cognitive and Neural Systems Workshop
In conjunction with
The 12th International Conference on Global Congress on Emerging Technologies

Conversation is an essential social activity for humans. Intelligent systems that can handle natural language are actually deployed on personal or home devices or embedded in humanoid robots, and try to enable social interactions between computers and humans in order to assist, enable, or entertain. Even though they have significantly improved their abilities in recognizing and synthetizing speech, they often fail to meet expectations of having a real dialogue with humans.

Indeed, they essentially try to provide a more or less adequate imitation of how humans converse, bringing the interlocutor into stereotyped conversations, but without developing real understanding of language or learning and using robust and meaningful representations of physical concepts, objects and events of the external world. This workshop is intended to provide an overview of the research being carried out in the areas of Cognitive and Neural systems designed to acquire capabilities for language learning, understanding, production and grounding, interactively or autonomously from data, also operating on portable and embedded devices or with preliminary quantum computing developments.

Workshop Topics

Natural Language Understanding
Natural Language Generation
Natural Language Grounding
Computer and Cognitive Vision
Conversational Systems/Interfaces
Human-like Reasoning and Adaptive Behavior
Computer/Human Interactive Learning
Search and Information Retrieval
Reinforcement Learning
Machine/Deep Learning from Heterogeneous Data
Emotional Intelligence
Neuroscience-Inspired Cognitive Architectures
Trustworthy and Explainable AI
Cognitive and Social Robotics
Quantum Machine Intelligence
Intelligence on Portable and Embedded Devices
Applications in Science, Engineering & Medicine
Applications in Healthcare, Finance & Business
Applications in Law, Education & Transportation
Applications in Retailing, Telecommunication & Multimedia