30.4804, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Spain

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-4804. Mon Dec 23 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.4804, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Spain

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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 23:53:54
From: AHMED ABURA'ED [ahmed.aburaed at upf.edu]
Subject: 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation

Full Title: 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation (FNP-FNS 2020) 
Short Title: FNP-FNS 2020 

Date: 13-Sep-2020 - 13-Sep-2020
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: AHMED ABURA'ED
Meeting Email: ahmed.aburaed at upf.edu
Web Site: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2020/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-May-2020 

Meeting Description:

The 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing
Financial Summarisation (FNP-FNS 2020)

Workshop Description:

This is the first joint workshop between FNP and MultiLing workshops
(http://multiling.iit.demokritos.gr/), both workshops have been running for
several years with great success.
The joint workshop will focus on the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP),
Machine Learning (ML), and Corpus Linguistics (CL) methods related to all
aspects of financial text mining and financial narrative processing (FNP) in
addition to demonstrating the value and challenges of applying summarisation
to multilingual financial text, usually referred to as financial narrative
disclosures. 
There is a growing interest in the application of automatic and computer-aided
approaches for extracting, summarising, and analysing both qualitative and
quantitative financial data. 

To be held at The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
(COLING'2020), Barcelona, Spain on 13 September 2020.
Workshop URL: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2020/

We introduce 3 shared tasks as follows:

1) Financial summarisation (FNS 2020), 
2) Financial Reports structure detection (FinTOC 2020),
3) Causality Identification in Financial documents (FinCausal 2020).

Links to shared tasks can be found on:
http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/shared-tasks/

MOTIVATION AND TOPICS OF INTEREST:
Financial narrative disclosures represent a large part of firms overall
financial communications with investors. 
Textual commentaries help to clarify issues obscured by complex accounting
methods and footnote disclosures. 
In addition, narratives summarise corporate strategy, contextualise results,
explain governance arrangements, describe corporate social responsibility
policy, and provide forward-looking information for investors.

Call for Papers:

We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the
following:
- Applying core technologies on financial narratives: morphological analysis,
disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity recognition, chunking,
parsing, semantic role labelling, sentiment analysis, document quality and
advanced readability metrics etc.
- Using NLP to detect misreporting in relation to diversity and wellbeing on
issues related to gender, ethnicity, women at work as well as employee mental
health and stability.
- Financial narratives resources: dictionaries, annotated data, tools and
technologies etc.
- Given the international nature of the conference, we particularly welcome
FNP papers reporting non- English and multilingual research, describing the
different regulatory regimes within which companies operate internationally.
Summarisation across domains and sources that are related to finance (e.g.
company blogs, product reviews, market briefs, etc.), this includes financial
multilingual and cross-lingual summarisation using single-document
summarisation, multi-document summarisation, summarisation evaluation,
headline generation, cross-domain/cross-topic summarisation.  

SoftConf Submission URL: https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/FNP-FNS/

Important Dates:

First call for workshop papers Dec 1, 2019
First call for shared task participants Dec 1, 2019
Second call for workshop papers Mar 18, 2020
Second call for shared task participants Mar 18, 2020
Shared task results due May 1, 2020
Shared task papers due May 15, 2020
Workshop papers due May 20, 2020
Notification of acceptance Jun 24, 2020
Camera-ready papers due Jul 11, 2020
Workshop and shared task dates Sep 13, 2020

Organising Committee:

- Dr Mahmoud El-Haj, Lancaster University (General Chair)
- Dr Houda Bouamor, CMU, Qatar (FNP Program Chair)
- Dr Marina Litvak, Shamoon Academic College of Engineering (FNS Program
Chair)
- Dr Paul Rayson, Lancaster University (FNP Program Chair)
- Dr Vasiliki Athanasakou, Saint Mary’s University (FNP-FNS Program Chair and
Advisor)
- Dr George Giannakopoulos, NCSR Demokritos (FNS Program Chair)
- Dr Sira Ferradans, Fortia Financial Solution (Publication Chair, FinToc
Shared Task Organiser)
- Naja-Imane Bentabet, Fortia Financial Solution (FinToc Shared Task
Organiser)
- Remi Juge, Fortia Financial Solution (FinToc Shared Task Organiser)
- Dr Catherine Salzedo, Lancaster University (FNP-FNS Publicity Chair)
- Nikiforos Pittaras, NCSR Demokritos (Publicity Chair and FNS Shared Task
Organiser)
- Ahmed AbuRaed, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (FNS Shared Task Organiser)
- Dr Ans Elhag, Lancaster University (FNP-FNS Publication Chair)
- Dominique Mariko, yseop.com (FinCausal Shared Task Orgnaiser)
- Anubhav Gupta, yseop.com (FinCausal Shared Task Orgnaiser)
- Hanna Abi-Akl, yseop.com (FinCausal Shared Task Orgnaiser)
- Hugues de Mazancourt, yseop.com (FinCausal Shared Task Orgnaiser)

Anti-Harassment Policy:
The workshop supports the ACL anti-harassment policy.
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy

Contact:
For any questions please contact General Chair: m.el-haj at lancaster.ac.uk

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