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NLDB 2024
The 29th International Conference on Natural Language &
Information Systems
25-27 June 2024, University of Turin, Italy.
Website:
https://nldb2024.di.unito.it/
Submission deadline: 22 March 5 April,
2024 (Extended)
About NLDB
The 29th International Conference on Natural Language &
Information Systems will be held at the University of Turin,
Italy, and will be a face to face event. Since 1995, the NLDB
conference brings together researchers, industry practitioners,
and potential users interested in various applications of Natural
Language in the Database and Information Systems field. The term
"Information Systems" has to be considered in the broader sense of
Information and Communication Systems, including Big Data, Linked
Data and Social Networks.
The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has itself recently
experienced several exciting developments. In research, these
developments have been reflected in the emergence of Large
Language Models and the importance of aspects such as
transparency, bias and fairness, Large Multimodal Models and the
connection of the NLP field with Computer Vision, chatbots and
dialogue-based pipelines.
Regarding applications, NLP systems have evolved to the point that
they now offer real-life, tangible benefits to enterprises. Many
of these NLP systems are now considered a de-facto offering in
business intelligence suites, such as algorithms for recommender
systems and opinion mining/sentiment analysis. Language models
developed by the open-source community have become widespread and
commonly used. Businesses are now readily adopting these
technologies, thanks to the efforts of the open-source community.
For example, fine-tuning a language model on a company's own
dataset is now easy and convenient, using modules created by
thousands of academic researchers and industry experts.
It is against this backdrop of recent innovations in NLP and its
applications in information systems that the 29th edition of the
NLDB conference takes place. We welcome research and industrial
contributions, describing novel, previously unpublished works on
NLP and its applications across a plethora of topics as described
in the Call for Papers.
Call for Papers:
NLDB 2024 invites authors to submit papers on unpublished research
that addresses theoretical aspects, algorithms, applications,
architectures for applied and integrated NLP, resources for
applied NLP, and other aspects of NLP, as well as survey and
discussion papers. This year's edition of NLDB continues with the
Industry Track to foster fruitful interaction between the industry
and the research community.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Large Language Models: training, applications, transfer
learning, interpretability of large language models.
* Multimodal Models: Integration of text with other modalities
like images, video, and audio; multimodal representation learning;
applications of multimodal models.
* AI Safety and ethics: Safe and ethical use of Generative AI and
NLP; avoiding and mitigating biases in NLP models and systems;
explainability and transparency in AI.
* Natural Language Interfaces and Interaction: design and
implementation of Natural Language Interfaces, user studies with
human participants on Conversational User Interfaces, chatbots and
LLM-based chatbots and their interaction with users.
* Social Media and Web Analytics: Opinion mining/sentiment
analysis, irony/sarcasm detection; detection of fake reviews and
deceptive language; detection of harmful information: fake news
and hate speech; sexism and misogyny; detection of mental health
disorders; identification of stereotypes and social biases; robust
NLP methods for sparse, ill-formed texts; recommendation systems.
* Deep Learning and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI):
Deep learning architectures, word embeddings, transparency,
interpretability, fairness, debiasing, ethics.
* Argumentation Mining and Applications: Automatic detection of
argumentation components and relationships; creation of resource
(e.g. annotated corpora, treebanks and parsers); Integration of
NLP techniques with formal, abstract argumentation structures;
Argumentation Mining from legal texts and scientific articles.
* Question Answering (QA): Natural language interfaces to
databases, QA using web data, multi-lingual QA, non-factoid
QA(how/why/opinion questions, lists), geographical QA, QA corpora
and training sets, QA over linked data (QALD).
* Corpus Analysis: multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-modal
corpora; machine translation, text analysis, text classification
and clustering; language identification; plagiarism detection;
information extraction: named entity, extraction of events, terms
and semantic relationships.
* Semantic Web, Open Linked Data, and Ontologies: Ontology
learning and alignment, ontology population, ontology evaluation,
querying ontologies and linked data, semantic tagging and
classification, ontology-driven NLP, ontology-driven systems
integration.
* Natural Language in Conceptual Modelling: Analysis of natural
language descriptions, NLP in requirement engineering,
terminological ontologies, consistency checking, metadata creation
and harvesting.
* Natural Language and Ubiquitous Computing: Pervasive computing,
embedded, robotic and mobile applications; conversational agents;
NLP techniques for Internet of Things (IoT); NLP techniques for
ambient intelligence
* Big Data and Business Intelligence: Identity detection, semantic
data cleaning, summarisation, reporting, and data to text.
Student Registration:
We are committed to fostering the participation of young
researchers and students in the NLDB 2024 conference. To
accommodate as many young minds as possible, we have reduced the
student registration fees. We believe that this will provide an
excellent opportunity for students to engage with the latest
research and industrial applications of Natural Language
Processing across information systems.
Important Dates:
Full paper submission: 22 March 5
April, 2024 (Extended)
Paper notification: 3 May, 2024
Camera-ready deadline: 10 May, 2024
Conference: 25-27 June 2024
Submission Guidelines:
Authors should follow the LNCS format (
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines)
and submit their manuscripts in PDF via Easychair (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nldb2024)
Papers can be submitted to either the main conference or the
industry track.
Submissions can be full papers (up to 15 pages including
references and appendices), short papers (up to 11 pages including
references and appendices) or papers for a poster presentation or
system demonstration (6 pages including references). The program
committee may decide to accept some full papers as short papers or
poster papers.
All questions about submissions should be emailed to
federico.torrielli@unito.it
(Web & Publicity Chair)
General Chairs:
Luigi Di Caro, University of Turin
Farid Meziane, University of Derby
Amon Rapp, University of Turin
Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University