Special Issue NL4AI 2022: Workshop on natural language for artificial intelligence

Issue title: NL4AI 2022: Workshop on natural language for artificial intelligence

Guest editors: Debora Nozza, Lucia Passaro and Marco Polignano

Article type: Editorial

Authors: Nozza, Debora^a | Passaro, Lucia^b | Polignano, Marco^{c; *}

Affiliations: [a] Department of Computing Sciences, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy | [b] Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy | [c] Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Marco Polignano, Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. E-mail: marco.polignano@uniba.it.

Abstract: The 2022 edition of NL4AI was co-located with the 21st International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2022) and took place on November 30th in Udine, Italy. The call for papers attracted 17 submissions by 52 different authors from Italy (44), the UK (2), Algeria (4), and Germany (2). After the review process, 13 of 17 papers were accepted for publication (acceptance rate 76.47%). In terms of topics, the contributions to the workshop span from pure NLP works to broader proposals bridging NLP with other AI applications. Among the accepted articles, we selected two that we considered the most relevant and inspiring for the Italian Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence communities. The authors of these papers have been invited to extend their contribution to this volume, creating an exclusive venue to provide visibility to their egregious work.

Keywords: Natural language processing, artificial intelligence, NLP frontiers, NLP challenges, editorial

DOI: 10.3233/IA-230057

Journal: Intelligenza Artificiale, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 159-161, 2023