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CALL FOR PAPERS
7th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI)
at the 22nd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2023)

November 6th - 9th, 2023, Rome, Italy
Website:
http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/
http://www.aixia2023.cnr.it/

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IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: September 11th, 2023
Notification of paper acceptance: September 29th, 2023
Camera-ready version deadline: October 9th, 2023
Workshop (at AI*IA 2023): November 6th - 9th, 2023

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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 rise 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 used 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
Speech and Spoken language processing
Ethics and NLP
Interpretability, Explainability 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
LLMs and Applications
Multimodal (text-image) data sources


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
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.
We will invite two kinds of submissions, which address novel interface issues in recommender systems by following the new 2022 CEUR-ART – 1 Column papers style (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip).
Short/Demo papers: The maximum length is 6 pages (plus up to 2 pages of references).
Long papers: The maximum length is 12 pages (plus up to 2 pages of references).

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=nl4ai2023

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Elisa Bassignana, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Dominique Brunato, Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” (CNR-ILC), Italy
Marco Polignano, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Alan Ramponi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy