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Call for Papers - Special Issue on "Multilingual Approaches to NLP"

February 9th, 2021

With the rapid development of "Multilingual NLP", Natural Language Processing Research organizes two special issues, each one focusing on different aspects of this topic.
Now it is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of the second special issue, on Multilingual Approaches to NLP. This special issue welcome papers on all aspects of multilingual approaches to NLP, especially those making use of linguistic typology, for instance by parameter sharing between languages which have typological commonalities, typologically inspired machine learning architectures, multilingual resource development, or multilingual transfer learning.
Guest Editors for this special issue are Johannes Bjerva (Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark), Miryam de Lhoneux (Uppsala University, Sweden), Taraka Rama (University of North Texas, USA), Ekaterina Vylomova (The University of Melbourne, Australia), and Robert Östling (Stockholm University, Sweden). The paper submission deadline is 15 May 2021. Please find the full call for papers here.

For the first special issue, Multilingual Representations for NLP, the full call for papers can be downloaded here.

Call for Papers - Special Issue on "Multilingual Representations for NLP"

December 1st, 2020

With the rapid development of "Multilingual NLP", Natural Language Processing Research organizes two special issues, each one focusing on different aspects of this topic.
Now it is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of the first special issue on Multilingual Representations for NLP. This special issue invites articles on all aspects of multi- and cross-lingual text representations in NLP. Beyond standard zero-shot cross-lingual text classification transfer, particular focus is on challenging application scenarios of cross-lingual representations such as using them as a basis for evaluation metrics in machine translation without human references (reference-free evaluation metrics) and scenarios involving (very) low-resource languages and highly distant language pairs. Analyses of cross-lingual representations and novel benchmarks are, furthermore, of high interest. Original submissions as well as substantial extensions of submitted conference papers are welcome. Guest Editors for this special issue are Steffen Eger (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany), Li Dong (Microsoft Research, China), Chi-kiu Lo (National Research Council, Canada), Gözde Gül Şahin (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany), Johannes Bjerva (Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark), Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India). The paper submission deadline is 18 July 2021. Please find the full call for papers here.

For the second special issue, Multilingual Approaches to NLP, the full call for papers can be downloaded here.

Call for Papers - Special Issue on "Information Extraction and NLP"

October 30th, 2020

Natural Language Processing Research is pleased to announce an upcoming special issue on Information Extraction and NLP. This special issue aims at highlighting recent advances in NLP and IE focusing on the extraction of structured information from natural human language texts. The submission of original research articles and literature survey papers is welcome. Guest Editors for this special issue are Ziqi Zhang (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom), Ahmet Aker (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Gong Cheng (Nanjing University, China), Zhuang Liu (Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, China), Lu Xiao (Syracuse University, United States), and Xiabing Zhou (Soochow University, China). The paper submission deadline is 30 June 2021. Please find the full call for papers here.