Cognitive and Neural Systems Workshop

Event Dates

Dec 02, 2025 - Dec 05, 2025

Location

University Lyon 1, Lyon, France

Submission Deadline

Oct 25, 2025

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