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Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Text Mining

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 1453

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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue on natural language processing (NLP) and text mining aims to explore the latest advancements and applications of the processing and analysis of natural language data aimed at producing novel knowledge for decision making. This issue welcomes contributions that focus on innovative algorithms, models, and techniques for understanding, interpreting, and generating human language. We encourage submissions on a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to, syntactic and semantic analysis, sentiment analysis, information extraction, machine translation, pattern discovery, and language modeling. Additionally, research on the integration of NLP with other technologies, such as machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks, is highly valued. We also seek papers that address practical applications of text mining in various domains, including healthcare, finance, social media, and cybersecurity. The goal is to provide a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art NLP and text mining, highlighting both theoretical advances and practical implementations.

Prof. Dr. John Atkinson Abutridy
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Keywords

  • natural language processing (NLP)
  • text mining
  • sentiment analysis
  • information extraction
  • machine translation
  • language modeling
  • deep learning
  • neural networks
  • semantic analysis
  • syntactic analysis

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An Entity-Relation Extraction Method Based on the Mixture-of-Experts Model and Dependency Parsing
by Yuanxi Li, Haiyan Wang and Dong Zhang
Appl. Sci. 2025, 15(4), 2119; https://doi.org/10.3390/app15042119 - 17 Feb 2025
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Abstract
Entity-relation extraction (ERE) aims to identify entity types and the relationships between them from unstructured texts and is one of the key technologies for constructing knowledge graphs. However, ERE tasks face challenges such as insufficient semantic representations and the complexity of relationship types, [...] Read more.
Entity-relation extraction (ERE) aims to identify entity types and the relationships between them from unstructured texts and is one of the key technologies for constructing knowledge graphs. However, ERE tasks face challenges such as insufficient semantic representations and the complexity of relationship types, which lead to the difficulty of triplet extraction. To address these issues, we propose an entity-relation extraction model that incorporates dependency parsing and a mixture-of-experts architecture. Specifically, we use BERT as a character encoder, while integrating dependency syntax information as a separate encoding path. We apply additive attention to fuse the two pathways of encoding, assigning different weights to each vector in the encoding layer output through a learned weighting process. This enables the model to flexibly adjust the attention given to different features, allowing for a more accurate identification and utilization of syntactic dependencies within a sentence. In the relation classification layer, we employ a mixture-of-experts architecture, allowing each expert to focus on learning different relationship labels, thereby enhancing the model’s ability to accurately identify and capture specific entity relationships. The proposed model achieves superior results to the baseline models on two public ERE datasets, providing a novel and effective solution for entity-relation extraction tasks. Full article
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