Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR) in Internet of Things

Dear Colleagues,

Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR) have increasingly attracted advanced research. When combined with Internet-of-Thing (IoT) techniques, they have promise in real-life applications such as conversational personal assistants and IoT search engines. This Special Issue intends to provide academic and industrial communities with an excellent collection of research covering all aspects of current works on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR) that are applied in Internet of Things (IoT) or have great potential for application in IoT.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Syntactic, semantic, and context parsing and analysis for IoT;
• Machine-translation-related tasks;
• Question answering and chatbot development;
• Speech synthesis and recognition;
• Information retrieval in IoT;
• Ontology;
• Corpora development and evaluation;
• Natural language generation;
• Text and speech analysis;
• Multi-lingual/cross-lingual approaches;
• Text summarization for IoT.

Dr. Wei Emma Zhang
Prof. Dr. Chenliang Li
Prof. Dr. Michael Sheng
Guest Editors

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