1st Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence

NL4AI 2017


Artificial Intelligence



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CALL FOR PAPERS
1st Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI)
at the 6th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA2017)
Bari, Italy, November 14-17, 2017
Website: http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/
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IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: June 5, 2017 (11:59pm Hawaii time)
Notification of paper acceptance: July 21, 2017
Camera-ready version deadline: September 4, 2017
Workshop (at AI*IA 2017): November 14-17, 2017
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INTRODUCTION
The goal of the workshop “Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence” (NL4AI) is to explore the area situated at the intersection between Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. Even though we acknowledge the existence of a promising ground where these two disciplines can benefit from each other, we also believe this area is not only "populated" of technological challenges that, at turn, make one discipline play an ancillary role for the other. In fact, we believe that at the crossroad between NLP and AI, new technological paradigms rise from a cross-fertilization where each discipline makes a equal contribution: these resulting methodologies and technologies can change our reality and their societal impact has not yet been fully-fledged.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
We invite papers that pertain to the workshop theme including but not limited to:
Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics
NLP and AI applications in the Web era
Natural Language Interfaces for Human Robot Interaction
Speech for Conversational Agents or Human Robot Interaction
Language, Vision and Cognition
Resources and evaluation for NLP based AI systems
Position papers on the role of NLP in AI and societal impact
Dialog and interactive systems
Discourse and Pragmatics
Natural Language Generation
Information extraction and general NLP and AI applications including but not limited to text mining, semantic analytics, question answering, document analysis, text categorization, topic models, retrieval
Machine Learning for NLP
Sentiment analysis and Opinion mining
Natural Language Inference
Natural Language Processing and Industrial Challenges
HOW TO SUBMIT
Position and Short paper: 6 pages
Demos: 6 pages
Long papers: 12 pages
We encourage submissions that describe new theoretical models, applied techniques, and research in progress. However, contributions that have been already published or presented in other locations are welcomed. Depending if the authors transferred the right of publishing their work exclusively to a specific editor (e.g. IEEE/ACM conferences and journals), we might not be able to include the submission into the proceedings. In such a case, the work will be only mentioned in the proceedings.
Submissions should be prepared according to the main conference format (Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science). All submissions should be written in English and submitted as PDF. Submissions will be peer reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee members. Evaluation criteria will include novelty, significance for theory/practice, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. All the submissions should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nl4ai
At least one author of an accepted paper must attend the workshop to present the work.
The accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. We will also consider editing a special issue on The Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (http://www.ai-lc.it/it/rivista) after the workshop by encouraging the participants to extend their papers.
PC MEMBERS (Confirmed)
Agnese Augello, ICAR-CNR, Palermo
Valerio Basile, INRIA, France
Roberto Basili, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Cristina Bosco, Università di Torino, Italy
Elena Cabrio, INRIA, France
Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Mauro Dragoni, FBK, Trento
Simone Felice, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Marco Gori, Università di Siena, Italy
Bernardo Magnini, FBK, Trento
Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy
Daniele Nardi, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Malvina Nissim, Università di Bologna, Italy
Nicole Novielli, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Viviana Patti, Università di Torino, Italy
Giovanni Pilato, ICAR-CNR, Palermo
Elisa Ricci, FBK, Trento
Marco Rospocher, FBK, Trento
Giovanni Semeraro, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Rachele Sprugnoli, FBK, Trento
Carlo Strapparava, FBK, Trento
Sara Tonelli, FBK, Trento
Serena Villata, INRIA, France
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Pierpaolo Basile, SWAP group, Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Danilo Croce, ART Research Group, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Marco Guerini, HLT Research Group, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy