Scope  

2^nd International Conference on NLP & Information Retrieval (NLPI 2021) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Natural Language Computing and Information Retrieval.

Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to.

• Chunking / Shallow Parsing
• Computational Linguistics & NLP
• Decentralized knowledge representation, search and IR
• Dialog Systems
• Discourse
• Event and anomaly detection - Sentiment analysis
• Graph, deep-learning-based methods of NLP and IR
• Information Extraction, Retrieval
• Information Retrieval and AI
• Interactive, dynamic as well as contextual and personalised IR
• IR result evaluation and relevance feedback
• Lexical Semantics
• Linguistic Resources
• Machine Translation
• Ontology
• Opinion, personality and emotion detection in social media
• Paraphrasing / Entailment / Generation
• Parsing / Grammatical Formalisms
• Phonology, Morphology
• POS Tagging
• Question Answering
• Semantic Processing & NLP
• Social and multimedia IR
• Speech Recognition and Synthesis
• Spoken Language Processing
• Statistical and Knowledge based Methods
• Text Mining
• Topic recognition ,tracking and subject indexing
• Visualization of NLP and IR results

Selected papers from NLPI 2021, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journals

• International Journal on Natural Language Computing (IJNLC)
• International Journal of Web & Semantic Technology (IJWesT)