New Developments in Computational Linguistics to Support Decision Making
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 March 2025 | Viewed by 2961
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sentiment analysis; natural language processing; horizon scanning; web crawling; web searching
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Many interdisciplinary applications benefit from comprehending and analyzing written and spoken language. If computers recognize and understand what we write or speak, our interaction with software and machines can improve, which, in turn, enhances our ability to use the information available for strategic insights and decision making.
At present, modelling linguistic phenomena computationally relies on a variety of tools, including machine learning, deep learning, cognitive computing, neuroscience, and language analysis. This Special Issue on ‘New Developments in Computational Linguistics to Support Decision Making’ aims to bring together the latest research and innovations in computational linguistic tools to address the challenges of supporting decision making in several fields, such as medical diagnostics, customer service, consumer behavior prediction, production optimization, asset allocation, etc.
We invite authors to submit high-quality original research papers focusing on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Finite state techniques;
- N-gram language models;
- Sentiment classification;
- Sequence labelling for part of speech and named entities;
- Constituency grammars and treebanks;
- Constituency parsing;
- Compositional semantics;
- Distributional semantics;
- Neural networks and neural language models;
- Word senses and WordNet;
- Computational discourse;
- Dialogue systems and chatbots;
- Large language models;
- Information extraction and question answering;
- Machine translation.
Dr. Marco Palomino
Dr. Craig McNeile
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural language processing
- computational linguistics
- machine learning
- language models
- text mining
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