Advances in Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2023) | Viewed by 6257
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural language processing; knowledge acquisition; information retrieval; machine learning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, due to the rapid development of pre-trained model technology, information retrieval (IR) and natural language processing (NLP) have achieved significant improvements in wide areas, such as conversational systems, retrieval, ranking, knowledge acquisition, and representation learning for information extraction. The idea of pre-trained models with self-supervised language modeling is playing a more and more significant role. As is demonstrated in recent works, pre-trained models are able to capture a decent amount of linguistic knowledge as well as factual knowledge, which are beneficial for downstream tasks and avoid learning such knowledge from scratch.
This Special Issue is intended to collect emerging contributions in the area of IR and NLP with the discussion on advanced technology to integrate and improve each other in terms of theories, models, and applications. The topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- Queries and query analysis
- Web search
- Efficiency and scalability
- Document representation and content analysis
- Question answering
- Conversational systems
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
- Sentence-level Semantics
- Textual Inference
- Evaluation Methodology
- Fairness, accountability, transparency
- Ethics, economics, and politics
- Other applications and domains
Dr. Haifeng Sun
Dr. Zirui Zhuang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- information retrieval
- natural language processing
- pre-trained models
- deep learning
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