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Natural Language Processing in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2025 | Viewed by 1199

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Institute of Computer Science, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch, 700011 Iasi, Romania
Interests: natural language processing; computational linguistics; web of linked data; content analysis; social media and health information; applied and computational statistics; integrated health informatics system; assisted decision systems; research ethics
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Computational Bioscience Program, Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Interests: spinal cord injury and regeneration; analysis of the speech of suicidal individuals; temporality in health records; information extraction from epilepsy clinic notes
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Dear Colleagues,

In an era when massive amounts of data have become available, researchers across various domains increasingly require the expertise of language engineers to process large quantities of literature, data, and records. Whether in healthcare, finance, education, social sciences, or any other field, linking the contents of these documents to each other, as well as to specialized ontologies, can enable access to and discovery of structured information, fostering significant advancements in natural language processing and research.

This Special Issue aims to gather innovative approaches for the exploitation of data using semantic web technologies and linked data by bringing together practitioners, researchers, and scholars to share examples, use cases, theories, and analyses across different fields. The main objective of this Special Issue is to consolidate an internationally appreciated forum for scientific research, with emphasis on crowdsourcing, the semantic web, knowledge integration, and data linking.

Dr. Daniela Gîfu
Dr. Kevin Cohen
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Keywords

  • natural language processing/text mining
  • data science/applied mathematics
  • knowledge integration
  • semantic web technologies
  • open linked data
  • crowdsourcing

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Under-Represented Speech Dataset from Open Data: Case Study on the Romanian Language
by Vasile Păiș, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Elena Irimia, Radu Ion and Dan Tufiș
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(19), 9043; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14199043 - 7 Oct 2024
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This paper introduces the USPDATRO dataset. This is a speech dataset, in the Romanian language, constructed from open data, focusing on under-represented voice types (children, young and old people, and female voices). The paper covers the methodology behind the dataset construction, specific details [...] Read more.
This paper introduces the USPDATRO dataset. This is a speech dataset, in the Romanian language, constructed from open data, focusing on under-represented voice types (children, young and old people, and female voices). The paper covers the methodology behind the dataset construction, specific details regarding the dataset, and evaluation of existing Romanian Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, with different architectures. Results indicate that more under-represented speech content is needed in the training of ASR systems. Our approach can be extended to other low-resourced languages, as long as open data are available. Full article
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In an era when massive amounts of data have become available, researchers across various domains increasingly require the expertise of language engineers to process large quantities of literature, data, and records. Whether in healthcare, finance, education, social sciences, or any other field, linking the contents of these documents to each other, as well as to specialized ontologies, can enable access to and discovery of structured information, fostering significant advancements in natural language processing and research.

This Special Issue aims to gather innovative approaches for the exploitation of data using semantic web technologies and linked data by bringing together practitioners, researchers, and scholars to share examples, use cases, theories, and analyses across different fields. The main objective of this Special Issue is to consolidate an internationally appreciated forum for scientific research, with emphasis on crowdsourcing, the semantic web, knowledge integration, and data linking.

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