Natural Language Processing and Information Systems

The Role of Learning.- You can't Learn what's not there: Self Supervised Learning and the Poverty of the Stimulus.- Scaling Federated Learning for Fine-tuning of Large Language Models.- Overcoming the Knowledge Bottleneck Using Lifelong Learning by Social Agents.- Methodological Approaches.- Word Embedding-based Topic Similarity Measures.- Mixture Variational Autoencoder of Boltzmann Machines for Text Processing.- A Modular Approach for Romanian-English Speech Translation.- NumER: A Fine-grained Numeral Entity Recognition Dataset.- Cross-Domain Transfer of Generative Explanations using Text-to-Text Models.- Semantic Relations.- Virus Causes Flu: Identifying Causality in the Biomedical Domain using an Ensemble Approach with Target-specific Semantic Embeddings.- Multilevel Entity-Informed Business Relation Extraction.- The Importance of Character-Level Information in an Event Detection Model.- Classification.- Sequence-based Word Embeddings for Effective TextClassification.- BERT-Capsule Model for Cyberbullying Detection in Code-Mixed Indian Languages.- Multiword Expression Features for Automatic Hate Speech Detection.- Semantic Text Segment Classification of Structured Technical Content.- On the Generalization of Figurative Language Detection: the Case of Irony and Sarcasm.- Extracting Facts from Case Rulings through Paragraph Segmentation of Judicial Decisions.- Detection of Misinformation about COVID-19 in Brazilian Portuguese WhatsApp Messages.- Sentiment Analysis.- Multi-Step Transfer Learning for Sentiment Analysis.- Improving Sentiment Classification in Low Resource Bengali Language Utilizing Cross-lingual Self-supervised Learning.- Human Language Comprehension in Aspect Phrase Extraction with Importance Weighting.- Exploring Summarization to Enhance Headline Stance Detection.- Predicting Vaccine Hesitancy and Vaccine Sentiment using Topic Modeling and Evolutionary Optimization.- Sentiment Progression based Searching and