Semantics, Logics, Information Extraction and AI (SLIE)

Special Track at
The 35th International FLAIRS Conference
Jensen Beach (Hutchinson Island), Florida, USA
May 15 - 18, 2022

January 17, 2022 - Abstract submission deadline
January 24, 2022 - Paper submission deadline (firm)
February 22, 2022 - Paper acceptance notification
March 8, 2022 - Camera ready version due

All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by the FloridaOJ.

Call for Papers


Today, people working in Natural Language Processing (NLP) domain, especially Semantic, Logics and Information Extraction (SLIE), are often members of interdisciplinary teams, including computer scientists, experts in artificial intelligence, mathematicians, statisticians, logicians, linguists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, cognitive psychologists, psycholinguists, anthropologists and neuroscientists, among others. NLP-SLIE is not just a subfield of computer science, information engineering, and artificial intelligence. It is, also, connected to cognitive sciences through the development of cognitive theories. We can see NLP-SLIE divided into two parts: (1) its theoretical descriptions; (2) its concrete implementations. The theoretical aspect includes philosophical hypothesis, psychological hypothesis, linguistics methods as semantics, syntax, morphology, etc., or numerical methods as classification, neural networks, Naive Bayes, deep learning, etc. At the present stage of research, there still a gap between theoretical approaches and computer implementations. There are many computer applications without any solid theoretical foundations, and there are many theoretical methods with no computer implementation. Theoretical Methods and computational implementations for the NLP-SLIE must take into account this epistemological chain for to lead to effective, robust and reliable systems.

Papers and contributions are encouraged for any work relating to Natural Language Processing. Topics of interest may include (but are in no way limited to):

• Philosophy of language – new developments,
• Cognitive semantics,
• Logics of language,
• Language modeling,
• Computational linguistics (lexicology; morphology; syntax; semantics),
• Information extraction,
• Domain ontologies, linguistic ontologies,
• Knowledge processing,
• Translation,
• Text-mining.
• Machine Learning and Deep-Learning.
• Applied Natural Language Processing.
• etc.

Note: We invite original papers (i.e. work not previously submitted, in submission, or to be submitted to another conference during the reviewing process).

Submission Guidelines
Interested authors should format their papers according to FLAIRS formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages (4 pages for a poster) and are due by January, 24th, 2022 (an abstract must be submitted by january, 17th, 2022). For FLAIRS-35, the 2022 conference, the reviewing is a double blind process. Fake author names and affiliations must be used on submitted papers to provide double-blind reviewing. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can be accessed through the main conference web site (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=flairs35). Note: do not use a fake name for your EasyChair login - your EasyChair account information is hidden from reviewers. Authors should indicate the SLIE special track for submissions. FLAIRS requires that there be at least one full author registration per paper.

Please, check the website http://www.flairs-35.info/ for further information.

Conference Proceedings
Papers will be refereed, and all accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, which will be published by FloridOJ.

Organizing Committee
Ismail Biskri, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (Ismail.Biskri@uqtr.ca)
Anca Pascu, Université de Brest, France (Anca.Pascu@univ-brest.fr)
Adel Jebali, University of Concordia, Canada (adel.jebali@concordia.ca)
Vladislav Kubon, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic (vk@ufal.mff.cuni.cz)


Current Program Committee
Iana Anatassova, Université de Franche-Comté, France, iana.atanassova@gmail.com
Marc Bertin, Université de Lyon, France, bertin.marc@gmail.com
Ismail Biskri (co-chair), Universite de Québec à Trois Rivières, Canada, Ismail.Biskri@uqtr.ca
Jean-Pierre Desclés, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France, Jean-pierre.Descles@paris-sorbonne.fr
Eva Hajicova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, hajicova@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
Adel Jebali (Co-chair), University of Concordia, Montreal, Canada, adel.jebali@concordia.ca
Vladislav Kubon (Co-chair), Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic vk@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
Anca Pascu (co-chair), Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France, Anca.Pascu@univbrest.fr
Fatiha Sadat, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada, sadat.fatiha@uqam.ca
Juan Manuel Torres Moreno, Université d'Avignon, France, juan-manuel.torres@univ-avignon.fr
Louis Rompré, Cascade, Canada, louis.rompre@gmail.com
Khaled Shaalan, Brithish University at Dubai, United Arab Emirates, khaled.shaalan@buid.ac.ae
Amel Zouaq, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada, amal.zouaq@polymtl.ca
Usef Faghihi, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada, usef.faghihi@uqtr.ca
Nadia Ghazzali, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada, nadia.ghazzali@uqtr.ca
Clayton Peterson, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada, clayton.peterson@uqtr.ca
Walid Saba, Astound, walid@astound.ai
Motasem Alrahabi, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France

Further Information
Questions regarding the SLIE Special Track should be addressed to the track co-chairs:

Ismail Biskri, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (Ismail.Biskri@uqtr.ca)
Anca Pascu, Université de Brest, France (Anca.Pascu@univ-brest.fr)
Adel Jebali, Concordia University, Canada (adel.jebali@concordia.ca)
Vladislav Kubon, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic (vk@ufal.mff.cuni.cz)

Special track chair : Soon Ae Chun (soon.chun@csi.cuny.edu )

Invited Speakers
To be announced

Conference Web Sites
Paper submission site: follow the link for submissions at http://www.flairs-35.info/
FLAIRS-35 conference web page: http://www.flairs-35.info/
Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS): http://www.flairs.com