The 9th International Symposium on Language & Knowledge Engineering will be held in Dublin, Ireland. LKE24 is organized by the School of Enterprise Computing and Digital Transformation of the Technological University Dublin, Grangegorman Campus. LKE 2024 will be a forum for exchanging scientific results and experiences, as well as sharing new knowledge, and increasing the co-operation between research groups in natural language processing and related areas.

Topics

Submissions reporting original research work are invited under the following tracks:

Track 1: Language and Knowledge Engineering
• Natural Language Processing
• AI for NLP
• Intelligent Techniques for Language Processing
• Natural Language Inference
• Knowledge Representation and Inferences
• Machine Learning for Text Analytics
• Deep Learning methods for Text Processing
• Fuzzy Inference and Language Processing
• Computational Linguistics for Language and Knowledge Engineering
• Question-Answering Systems
• Emotion and Sentiment analysis
• Social Media Text Analytics
• Intelligent Systems for Knowledge
• Human Computer Interaction
• Related issues and applications

NOTE: The acepted papers in this track will appear in a Special Issue of Springer Nature Computer Science (Indexed in Scopus, Cite Score: 0.6.).

Track 2: Scholarly Information Processing
• Information seeking & searching with scientific information
• Mining the scientific literature
• Academic search/recommender systems
• Dataset development for bibliographic research
• Scholarly Databases and their use
• Science of science
• Citation and co-citation analysis
• Research collaboration mobility and internationalization
• Knowledge dissemination and interdisciplinarity
• Bibliometric indicators
• Webometrics and altmetrics
• Science mapping and visualization
• Communication channels: periodicals, proceedings, books, and electronic publications
• Knowledge discovery
• AI and data mining
• Bibliometrics-aided information retrieval
• Open science – open access and open data
• AI assisted peer review

NOTE: The accepted papers in this track will appear in a Special Issue of Journal of Scientometric Research (Indexed in Scopus, Cite Score: 1.7, Indexed in ESCI, Impact Factor: 0.8).


Track 3: Computational approaches to Language & Knowledge Engineering
• Combinatorial Optimization Problems
• Computer Science Security
• Computational Complexity
• Computational aspects in Science of life
• Computational Intelligence
• Meta-heuristic and heuristics algorithms
• Operations Research
• Semantic Web
• Software engineering
• Web Technologies
• Smart Cities and related topics
• Robotics
• Language and knowledge engineering

NOTE: These papers will go to Special Issue of International Journal of Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Informatics (IJCOPI) (Indexed in ESCI with Impact Factor: 0.3, CONACYT-Mexico).

Track 4: Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
• Human-Centred AI approaches to its application
• Legal, regulatory-compliant, and ethical adoption of AI (Compliance and Legality)
• AI risks
• AI development lifecycle
• Human values and fundamental rights on development, deployment, use and monitoring of AI systems
• Natural and social environment in which AI tools operate
• Socially Responsible AI
• Trustworthy AI
NOTE: These papers will go to Special Issue of Springer Nature Transformative Journal in AI and Ethics, Electronic ISSN: 2730-5961.



Journal Special Issues of LKE 2024

• Journal of Scientometric Research (Indexed in Scopus, Cite Score: 1.7, Indexed in ESCI, Impact Factor: 0.8), Print ISSN: 2321-6654, Electronic ISSN: 2320-0057.
• International Journal of Combinatorial Optimization Problems and Informatics (IJCOPI) (Indexed in ESCI with Impact Factor: 0.3, CONACYT-Mexico), Print ISSN: 2007-1558.
• Special Issue of Springer Nature Computer Science (SNCS) (Indexed in Scopus, Cite Score: 0.6.), Electronic ISSN: 2662-995X.
• Springer Nature Transformative Journal in AI and Ethics, Electronic ISSN: 2730-5961.


Other Journal Special Issues from the Conference Organizers

The organizers of the conference are also organizing related Special Issues of the following journals. Authors of some accepted good quality papers in LKE 2024 will be invited to submit extended/revised versions of their submissions to these venues:
• Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP) (Clarivate: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Impact Factor: 2.0), Print ISSN:2375-4699, Electronic ISSN:2375-4702.
• Special Issue of Computer Speech and Language (CS&L) (Clarivate: SCI, Impact Factor: 4.3), Print ISSN: 0885-2308, Online ISSN: 1095-8363.
• Special Issue of Journal of Natural Language Engineering (Cambridge University Press) (Clarivate: SCI, Impact Factor: 1.841), ISSN: 1351-3249 (Print), 1469-8110 (Online).


Paper Submission and Review Process
All papers will be blind submitted (author’s names are not allowed) in English. All submissions will be peer reviewed by the Scientific Committee, for originality, technical content and relevance. The final acceptance will be based upon double blind peer review of the full-length paper, and based on this the final decision will be to be considered either as ORAL or POSTER presentation.

Submissions are invited for papers presenting high quality, previously unpublished research. Selection criteria include originality of ideas, correctness, clarity and significance of results and quality of presentation. Papers must be formatted according to the author guidelines for SN Computer Science.

Please prepare your paper using either the LaTeX (recommended) or the MS Word Text Formatting guide. Please limit the size of your paper to the suggested number of pages and the provided journal format. Papers that do not follow these format requirements may be rejected without review or may be not included in the journal even if they were accepted for publication.

Language

• Manuscripts must be written in English. Authors whose native language is not English are recommended to seek the advice of a native English speaker, if possible, before submitting their manuscripts.
• The papers should be submitted electronically at the Microsoft CMT system: CMT - LKE2024
• Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and to present the communication at the conference, if it is accepted.

Size
We are accepting papers of sizes 14 - 16 pages using the suggested format. Registration fee for authors includes publication of a paper of up to 16 pages.

Double blind review policy

The review procedure is double blind. Thus the papers submitted for review must not contain the authors’ names, affiliations, or any information that may disclose the authors’ identity (this information is to be restored in the camera-ready version upon acceptance). In particular, in the version submitted for review please avoid explicit auto-references.