[CFP] 6th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI)

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*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*6th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI)*

at the 21st International Conference of the Italian Association for 
Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2022)
Udine, November 28th - December 2nd, 2022


Website:<http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/>

http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/ <http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/>

https://aixia2022.uniud.it/ <https://aixia2022.uniud.it/>

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*IMPORTANT DATES*

Paper submission deadline: *September 30th, 2022*

Notification of paper acceptance: *October 24th, 2022 *

Camera-ready version deadline: *November 7th, 2022*

Workshop (at AI*IA 2022): *November 28th - December 2nd, 2022*

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*INTRODUCTION*

The goal of the NL4AI workshop is to explore the role of Computational 
Linguistics and Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence 
applications.We believe that new technological challenges and 
opportunities arise at the boundary between NLP and AI. On the one hand, 
AI applications benefit from a deeper understanding of problems related 
to Natural Language, and thus the integration of advanced NLP 
techniques. On the other hand, NLP benefits greatly from being applied 
in wider areas of AI where problems and methodologies related to NL can 
be evaluated in new contexts.

*TOPICS OF INTEREST*

We invite papers that pertain to the workshop theme including, but not 
limited, to:

  * NLP and AI Applications (health, legal domain, social media and
    journalism, etc.)
  * Natural Language Interfaces for Human-Robot Interaction
  * Resources and Evaluation
  * Discourse and Pragmatics
  * Natural Language Generation
  * Information Extraction in AI applications
  * Machine Learning for NLP
  * Sentiment analysis and Opinion mining
  * Natural Language Inference
  * NLP and Industrial Challenges
  * Semantics
  * Conversational Agents in Human-Computer Interaction
  * Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics
  * Language and other Multimodality
  * Ethics and NLP
  * Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
  * Abusive Language Detection and Analysis
  * Machine Translation and Multilinguality
  * Question Answering
  * Summarization
  * NLP for Fact Checking, Fake News Detection and Analysis

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings via CEUR 
Workshop Proceedings. Depending on the number and quality of papers 
received, we will consider proposing a special issue in relevant 
journals. The Program Committee will select the Best Workshop Paper from 
the accepted papers.


*HOW TO SUBMIT*


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We encourage submissions that describe new theoretical models, applied 
techniques, and research in progress. Substantial extensions to works 
already published or presented in other locations are also welcomed.

Submissions should be prepared according to the main conference format 
(Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, see: 
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines 
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines>).

All submissions should be written in English and submitted as PDF. The 
page limit is 12 pages (plus bibliography) for research papers and 6 
pages (plus bibliography) for demo and position papers. Please note that 
papers with less than 25000 characters will be considered short papers 
in the CEUR proceedings. Submissions will be peer-reviewed 
(single-blind) by the program committee members. Evaluation criteria 
will include novelty, significance for theory/practice, technical 
soundness, and quality of presentation.

All the submissions should be submitted via *EasyChair* at: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nl4ai2022 
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nl4ai2022>

*WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS*

  * /Debora Nozza/, Bocconi University, Italy
  * /Lucia Passaro/, University of Pisa, Italy
  * /Marco Polignano/, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy