FNP 2022 : The 4th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2022)

Please find below the FNP 2022 call for papers:
FNP 2022

The 4th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2022)

To be held at 13th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022), Marseille, France on 24 June 2022 (full day event).

FNP 2022: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2022/

Submission page:

https://www.softconf.com/lrec2022/FNP
Important Dates:

1st Call for papers & shared task participants: 10 January 2022
2nd Call for papers & shared task participants: 14 February 2022
Training set release: 25 February 2022
Blind test set release: 25 March 2022
Systems submission: 1 April 2022
Release of results: 5 April 2022
Paper submission deadline: 15 April 2022 (extended)
Papers notification of acceptance: 3 May 2022
Workshop date: 24 June 2022 (full day event)

Call For Papers

We invite papers describing original, completed or ongoing, unpublished research. We welcome paper 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 submissions on negative results as well as submissions highlighting challenges faced in industrial or academic settings.

We encourage submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:

Applying core technologies on financial narratives: morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, chunking, parsing, semantic role labelling, sentiment analysis, document quality and advanced readability metrics, etc.
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.
Financial narrative resources: dictionaries, annotated data, tools and technologies etc.
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.
Analysis of Online Social Networks for detection of public opinions towards financial events.
Multilingual analysis, describing the different regulatory regimes within which companies operate internationally.
Ongoing research and preliminary results
Negative results, for example techniques and methodologies that work for certain languages but not on others. Other venues could be showing that state-of-the-art technologies such as BERT could fail on certain tasks or languages.


We are pleased to announce that FNP 2022 will be supported by the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) http://www.elra.info/en/.

The winning team of each of our shared task competitions will win one free registration generously provided by ELRA to attend LREC 2022 and present their work at the workshop in Marseille, France.


Organising Committee:

Dr Mahmoud El-Haj, Lancaster University (General Chair)
Dr Houda Bouamor, CMU, Qatar (FNP Program Chair)
Dr Marina Litvak, Shamoon Academic College of Engineering (FNS Program Chair)
Dr Paul Rayson, Lancaster University (FNP Program Chair)
Prof Antonio Moreno–UAM. Madrid, Spain (FNS Shared Task)
Dr Vasiliki Athanasakou, Saint Mary’s University (FNP-FNS Program Chair and Advisor)
Dr George Giannakopoulos, NCSR Demokritos (FNS Program Chair)
Nadhem Zmandar, Lancaster University (Publication Chair and FNS Organiser)
Dr Ismail El Maarouf, Fortia Financial Solution(FinToc Shared Task Organiser)
Abderrahim Aitazzi, Fortia Financial Solution(FinToc Shared Task Organiser)
Juyeon KANG, Fortia Financial Solution(FinToc Shared Task Organiser)
Dr Kim Trottier–HEC Montréal. Montréal, Canada (FNP Advisor)
Nikiforos Pittaras, NCSR Demokritos (Publicity Chair and FNS Shared Task Organiser)
Dr Ahmed AbuRaed, University of British Columbia (FNS 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)
Anubhav Gupta, Yseop Lab(FinCausal Shared Task Organizer)