Symbol Emergence Systems: An Interdisciplinary Discussion about Cognition, Language and Society

Tadahiro Taniguchi is a Professor at the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, and an Affiliate Professor at the Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Kyoto University in 2006. Over the past two decades, he has made foundational contributions to the interdisciplinary study of cognition, language, and robotics. He proposed the concept of symbol emergence systems, which addresses how symbols arise and evolve through embodied interaction, social communication, and learning. He is also recognized as a pioneer in the field of symbol emergence in robotics, which combines developmental robotics, machine learning, and cognitive science to explore the emergence of meaning and communication in intelligent systems. Taniguchi has authored and edited numerous publications on machine learning, cognitive robotics, emergent communication, and artificial intelligence. He has received multiple academic awards from societies such as the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ), and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE). He currently serves as Chair of the IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, contributing to international leadership in the field.