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Special Issue on Language Technology and Knowledge Graphs<br class="">
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<div class="">Submission deadline: 15 October 2019</div>
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<div class="">Call for Papers</div>
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<div class="">Language understanding and knowledge engineering are among the most active research and development areas due to the proliferation of big data. This special issue on Language Technology and Knowledge Graphs is devoted to gather and present innovative
research, systems and applications that address the challenges in the broad areas of language and knowledge intelligence, presenting a platform for researchers to share their recent observations and achievements in the field. Special topics for this special
issue include but are not limited to:</div>
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<div class="">1. Textual Entailment and Knowledge</div>
<div class=""> * Textual entailment</div>
<div class=""> * Fact checking</div>
<div class=""> * Fake news detection</div>
<div class=""> * Argumentation mining</div>
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<div class="">2. Knowledge-Guided NLP</div>
<div class=""> * Question answering and reading comprehension</div>
<div class=""> * Dialogue systems</div>
<div class=""> * Information Retrieval</div>
<div class=""> * Multilinguality </div>
<div class=""> * Recommender systems</div>
<div class=""> * Machine Translation</div>
<div class=""> * Knowledge-Guided Deep Learning</div>
<div class=""> * Complex knowledge-driven Information Extraction tasks e.g., relation extraction, event extraction</div>
<div class=""> * Methods and metrics for evaluation of semantic annotations with respect to ontologies</div>
<div class=""> * Knowledge-driven entity disambiguation and resolution</div>
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<div class="">3. Contextual Knowledge Graphs and Language Technology</div>
<div class=""> * Extracting and modelling temporally bounded information</div>
<div class=""> * Dealing with culturally-aware information</div>
<div class=""> * Handling domain specificity of information</div>
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<div class="">4. Information Extraction for Knowledge Graphs</div>
<div class=""> * Extraction from unstructured versus semi-structured textual sources (e.g. tables)</div>
<div class=""> * Dealing with the imperfections of Information Extraction techniques in the Semantic Web setting and their impact</div>
<div class=""> * Multi-source or multilingual Information Extraction for ontology population</div>
<div class=""> * Information extraction subtasks (e.g., terminology extraction, relation extraction, coreference resolution) for the Semantic Web</div>
<div class=""> * Methods and metrics for evaluation of Information Extraction for the Semantic Web</div>
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<div class="">5. Applications and Architectures</div>
<div class=""> * Knowledge-based Information Extraction for specific domains and applications, e.g. business analytics, healthcare and biomedicine, cultural heritage etc.</div>
<div class=""> * Information Extraction for social media mining</div>
<div class=""> * Scalability of tools and resources </div>
<div class=""> * Platforms and architectures for automatic and semi-automatic semantic annotation</div>
<div class=""> * Tools and methodologies for building and managing complex processing workflows</div>
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<div class="">Types of papers</div>
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<div class="">Research papers describing well-identified scientific contributions which are thoroughly evaluated. Those papers are typically 15-20 pages long.</div>
<div class="">System and Resource papers that focus on the description of systems or resources relevant to this special issue where the authors fully detail the design, construction, implementation and usage as well as demonstrate its usefulness. Those papers
are expected to be 8-10 pages long. Please select VSI: LT&KGs in the submission system. </div>
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<div class="">More information and submission: <a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-web-semantics/call-for-papers/language-technology-and-knowledge-graphs" class="">
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<div class="">Important Dates</div>
<div class=""> * Submission deadline: 15 October 2019</div>
<div class=""> * Author notification: 17 November 2019</div>
<div class=""> * Publication: Q1 2020</div>
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<div class="">Guest Editors</div>
<div class=""> * Marieke van Erp, KNAW Humanities Cluster, DHLab, the Netherlands</div>
<div class=""> * Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK </div>
<div class=""> * Zhiyuan Liu, Tsinghua University, China</div>
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