Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Applications—2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Due to the success of the first edition of the Special Issue of Applied Science, entitled “Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Applications”, we have launched a second edition.

This Special Issue will showcase advances in NLP and its applications, including significant advances in sentiment analysis, machine translation, semantic understanding, and more. Large-scale pre-trained models such as BERT and GPT-3 have revolutionized NLP and provided a solid foundation for future advancement. The transformer design enhances cross-language and multi-modal intelligence. However, NLP still faces challenges such as unsupervised learning, model generalization, and linguistic diversity. Factors such as background, language and culture should be considered in real applications. This SI invites experts and scholars from around the world to share their latest research results and technological advances in order to provide more inspiration and ideas for the future development of NLP.

Prof. Dr. Guilin Qi
Prof. Dr. Tong Xu
Dr. Meng Wang
Guest Editors

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