FNP 2021: The 3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop Online Lancaster, UK, September 16, 2021 |
Conference website | http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2021/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fnp2021 |
Submission deadline | July 1, 2021 |
FNP 2021 workshop is a two day free-registration event organised by the Data Science Institute (DSI) at Lancaster University and Yseop. The event will run on the 15th and 16th of September 2021 and will include presentations from 8 keynote speakers from NLP, linguistics and Accounting & Finance as well as presentations of accepted abstracts. The event includes 3 NLP shared tasks. Award prizes will be given to the shared tasks winning teams. For more details visit: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2021/
Submission Guidelines
We invite abstracts describing original, completed or ongoing, unpublished research. We welcome abstract submissions, in theory, methodology, as well as resources and applications in all areas related to Financial Natural Language Processing and Financial Text Analysis. We also welcome abstract submissions on negative results as well as submissions highlighting challenges faced in industrial or academic settings. Abstract should be 1 page long and a maximum of 500 words. In your abstract please explain the topic you are looking forward to present, is it a complete, ongoing or future work, what audience are you targeting (e.g. NLP, Summarisation, Accounting and Finance …etc) and findings and conclusions that emerged from your work. Abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair submission system and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of both individual criteria and global criteria https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fnp2021.
Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to submit a 4-8 paper describing their work in details including methodologies, results and findings. All accepted papers will be published ACL Anthology.. The workshop is free to attend and no registration fees are required.
List of Topics
We invite abstracts on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:
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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.
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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.
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Financial narratives resources: dictionaries, annotated data, tools and technologies etc.
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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.
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Given the international nature of the event, we particularly welcome FNP abstracts reporting non- English and multilingual research, describing the different regulatory regimes within which companies operate internationally.
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On going research and preliminary results are welcome
Committees
Organizing committee
- Dr Mahmoud El-Haj, Lancaster University (General Chair)
- Prof Paul Rayson, Lancaster University (FNP Program Chair)
- Nadhem Zmandar, Lancaster University (Publication Chair and FNS Organiser)
- Dr Houda Bouamor, CMU, Qatar (FNP Program Chair)
- Dr Marina Litvak, Shamoon Academic College of Engineering (FNS Organiser)
- Dr George Giannakopoulos, NCSR Demokritos (FNS Organiser)
- Dr Ahmed AbuRaed, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (FNS Organiser)
- Nikiforos Pittaras, NCSR Demokritos (Publicity Chair)
- Dr Ismail El Maarouf, Fortia Financial Solution (FinToc Organiser)
- Abderrahim Aitazzi, Fortia Financial Solutions (FinTOC Shared Task Organizer)
- Dr Juyeon Kang, Fortia Financial Solution (FinToc Shared Task Organiser)
- Dominique Mariko, Yseop Lab (FinCausal Shared Task Organizer)
- Hanna Abi-Akl, Yseop Lab (FinCausal Shared Task Organizer)
- Hugues de Mazancourt, Yseop Lab (FinCausal Shared Task Organizer)
- Estelle Labidurie, Yseop Lab (FinCausal Shared Task Organizer)
Confirmed Invited Speakers
- Emmanuel Walckenaer, CEO, Yseop, Paris, France.
- Prof Jochen L Leidner – Coburg University | University of Sheffield. Germany | UK.
- Dr Kim Trottier – HEC Montréal. Montréal, Canada.
- Prof Steven Young – Lancaster University. Lancaster, UK.
- Dr Claire Hardy – Lancaster University. Lancaster, UK.
- Prof Antonio Moreno – UAM. Madrid, Spain.
- Dr Vasiliki Athanasakou, Saint Mary’s University. Halifax, Canada.
- Dr Raymond Ng– Signal AI, London, UK.
Publication
FNP 2021 proceedings will be published in ACL Anthology https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/ . The proceedings will be made available online for free and are open access.
Awards & Prizes
The winning team from each shared task will receive an achievement certificate and a money prize worth US$650. Each team will also be given the chance to present their work at the workshop.
Venue
The workshop will be an online event. If the rules allows it we may run a hybrid workshop hosted at Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dr Mahmoud El-Haj (FNP 2021 General Chair)