CALL FOR PAPERS

Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence - NLPinAI 2021 Online Streaming 4-6 February, 2021

http://www.icaart.org/NLPinAI.aspx?y=2021

Special Session within the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART 2021 http://www.icaart.org

------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency, which are signature features of information in nature and natural languages. Furthermore, agents (humans or computational systems) are information conveyors, interpreters, or participate as components of informational content. Generally, language processing depends on agents' knowledge, reasoning, perspectives, and interactions.

The session covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways). The goal is to promote computational systems of intelligent natural language processing and related models of thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive processes.

TOPICS We invite contributions relevant to the following topics, without being limited to them:

- Type theories for applications to language and information processing - Computational grammar - Computational syntax - Computational semantics of natural languages - Computational syntax-semantics interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Parsing - Multilingual processing - Large-scale grammars of natural languages - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Models of computation and algorithms for natural language processing - Computational models of partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency - Models of situations, contexts, and agents, for applications to language processing - Information about space and time in language models and processing - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics - Data science in language processing - Machine learning of language - Interdisciplinary methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written and spoken language - Language processing based on biological fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language

IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: November 26, 2020 Authors Notification: December 14, 2020 Camera Ready and Registration: December 22, 2020

PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.

Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in LaTeX and Word styles) are available on the ICAART pages.

Paper Templates: http://www.icaart.org/Templates.aspx

Guidelines: http://www.icaart.org/Guidelines.aspx

Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the button SUBMIT PAPER on the pages of NLPinAI 2021 at ICAART 2021.

PUBLICATIONS After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on digital support - and submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI/ISI), DBLP, EI (Elsevier Engineering Village Index), Scopus, Semantic Scholar and Google Scholar. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library

We expect a post-conference, post-proceedings Special Issue with extended publications based on selected papers presented at NLPinAI 2021, ICAART 2021.

A book of selected works based on NLPinAI 2020 at ICAART 2020 is on its way to appear: Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence - NLPinAI 2020. Book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI).

CHAIR: Roussanka Loukanova CONTACT: Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova by gmail)