Advances in Artificial Intelligence Methods for Natural Language Processing

Dear Colleagues,

Recent years have shown significant progress in natural language processing using methods related to artificial intelligence. This progress is made both in the construction of new algorithms, language representation, and data sets as well as more and more efficient hardware. 

The advances in the NLP domain have influences on information retrieval methods, dialogue systems, automatic categorization of large text repositories etc. Thus, the purpose of this Special Issue is to publish high-quality research papers as well as review articles addressing recent advances in the field of computational linguistics. We welcome works that relate to NLP, such as: machine translation, dialogue and chatbots, and summarization, natural language generation, and understanding.

Topics of Interest:

We are seeking papers on (but not limited to) the following general topics related to NLP:

• Automatic categorization (classification and clustering) of the documents
• Text representation
• Language resources and tools   
• Sentiment analysis
• Effective algorithms for text processing (HPC 4 NLP)
• Machine translation
• Text summarization
• Generation of natural language
• Cognitive models of language understanding
• Anti-plagiarism systems 
• Word sense disambiguation
• Information retrieval
• Ontologies for natural language
• Deep learning in NLP
• Entity identification and linking

Prof. Dr. Julian Szymanski
Dr. Andrzej Sobecki
Prof. Dr. Higinio Mora
Prof. Dr. Doina Logofătu
Guest Editors

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