First International Workshop on “Natural Language Processing for Sustainability” (NLP4S 2023)

Objective

There are 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) towards which everyone in the world is committed. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be a big support in achieving these goals. People in the world are interacting through various mediums about sustainability and also reacting to the events happening around it. So, a branch of AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be a good tool to identify people’s reactions toward achieving these goals. Much of the research going around the globe is centered around NLP tools and techniques to extract valuable information. The objective of this workshop is to bring these researchers together and discuss the ideas presented by them, specifically in the domain of NLP and sustainable development.

Call for Papers

The workshop's objective is to involve all top researchers, promising academic scientists and research scholars to exchange their knowledge and share research results regarding all state-of-the-art developments in NLP that empower sustainability. It also provides an opportunity for educators, practitioners, and researchers to discuss and present the latest trends and hands-on challenges faced, along with possible solutions proposed for sustainable development. The primary interest of this workshop on “NLP for Sustainable Development” is to assemble a set of research papers based on novel techniques showing original, current state-of-art, and recent research on the given theme and how they can be of help in providing solutions to problems faced by society.

Topics of Interests:

We invite the submission of original works that are related, but not limited to:

• Sentiment Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining
• Machine Translation
• Automatic Summarization
• Natural Language Understanding
• Generative AI
• Multimodal NLP
• Document classification, topic modeling, information retrieval and cross-lingual retrieval
• Information Extraction, Text Mining, and Knowledge Graph Derivation from Texts
• AI & Machine learning for sustainable development goals
• Deep Learning for sustainable development

Submission:

The workshop is open for the submission of full-length original and unpublished research papers based on theoretical or experimental contributions that represent scientific results, methodical aspects, concepts, and approaches. All submissions must be in PDF format well documented in English language and formatted according to CEUR-WS CEURART style. Templates are available for LaTeX and DOCX/ODT, for single column layout.

CEUR-WS CEURART Style Templates

Sample Proceedings

Important Points:

1. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop & to the conference, to present the paper. The workshop will be Hybrid and no publication cost, only conference registration cost to attend or present the paper if accepted in the workshop.
2. High quality papers recommended by the review committee will be submitted for possible inclusion in CUER proceedings (No APC).

Submission Link:

Papers are to be submitted through the workshop’s EasyChair submission page.

Important Dates:

• Abstract Submission Deadline: 25 June 2023
• Paper Submission Deadline: 10 July 2023
• Full Paper Acceptance Notification: 30 July 2023
• Deadline for Camera Ready Paper: 10 August 2023

Registration:

• Student/PhD Scholar: 500 INR
• Academicians/Industry: 1000 INR

Workshop Chairs:

• Deepali Vohra, Symbiosis Institute of Technology (SIU) Pune, India)
• Shruti Patil, Symbiosis Institute of Technology (SIU) Pune, India)