New Perspectives in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2026) | Viewed by 5431
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The fields of natural language processing (NLP) and computational linguistics (CL) have undergone dramatic transformations in recent years and the ongoing development of new methodologies, algorithms, and data-driven approaches is continuously reshaping the ways machines understand, process, and generate human language.
The goal of this Special Issue attract innovative ideas and emerging trends as well as interdisciplinary approaches that push the boundaries of what is possible in these fields. New perspectives in NLP and CL highlight a shift towards more powerful, inclusive, and ethical AI systems that are not only capable of understanding language but can also reason, explain, and interact with the world in increasinlgly sophisticated ways. As NLP continues to evolve, its impact on industries ranging from healthcare to entertainment, education, and beyond will continue to grow, transforming how we interact with machines and how machines understand and process human language.
Topics relevant to this SI include, but are not limited to:
- Deep learning and transformer architectures;
- Pretrained language models;
- Multilingual and cross-lingual NLP;
- Explainability and interpretability;
- Bias and fairness in NLP;
- Ethical considerations and societal impact;
- Multimodal NLP;
- Low-resource and zero-shot learning;
- Human-in-the-loop NLP;
- Integrating knowledge and reasoning;
- Analytical, numerical, and computational analysis;
- Structural dynamics;
- Experimental investigations.
This dynamic and rapidly developing field offers exciting opportunities for innovation, collaboration, and addressing real-world challenges through the power of language technologies.
Prof. Dr. Víctor Fernández
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- interoperabiity
- transformers
- pretrained models
- multilingual NLP
- bias and fairness
- explainability
- reasoning
- generative models
- few-shot learning
- multimodal learning
- smartcity
- AI
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