FinNLP2020: The Second Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing @ IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 - Yokohama, Japan, July 11-13, 2020
Conference website https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finnlp2020
Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=finnlp2020
Submission deadline April 24, 2020
In the main track, we call for three kinds of paper, including regular paper, poster paper, and demonstration paper. There are two shared tasks collocated with FinNLP-2020, including “Learning Semantic Representations for the Financial Domain” (FinSim) and “Sentence Boundary Detection in PDF Noisy Text in the Financial Domain" (FinSBD-2).
This year, we offer the prize in both the main track and shared tasks.
Main Track: We will offer USD$500 to the Best Paper Award winner
Shared Task - FinSim: A USD$1000 prize will be rewarded to the best-performing teams.
Shared Task - FinSBD: A USD$2000 prize will be rewarded to the best-performing teams.
Submission Guidelines
Regular Paper: Papers submitted to the main track must be formatted according to IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 guidelines and must be no longer than seven pages in total: six pages for the body of the paper (including all figures), plus up to one additional page with references that do not fit within the six body pages.
Poster and Demo: two pages for the main text (including all figures but excluding references), and one additional page for references.
Prize
Main Track: We will offer USD$500 to the Best Paper Award winner
Shared Task - Learning Semantic Representations for the Financial Domain: A USD$1000 prize will be rewarded to the best-performing teams.
Shared Task - Sentence Boundary Detection in PDF Noisy Text in the Financial Domain: A USD$2000 prize will be rewarded to the best-performing teams.
Program Committee
Paulo Alves - Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Alexandra Balahur - European Commission's Joint Research Centre
Paul Buitelaar - Insight Centre for Data Analytics at NUIG
Damir Cavar - Indiana University
Pablo Duboue - Textualization Software Ltd.
Jinhua Du - American International Group, Inc.
Ismail El Maarouf - Fortia Financial Solutions
Sira Ferradans - Independent Researcher
Kiyoshi Izumi - The University of Tokyo
Changliang Li - Kingsoft Corporation
Nedim Lipka - Adobe Inc.
Hiroki Sakaji - The University of Tokyo
Dialekti Valsamou-Stanislawski - Fortia Financial Solutions
Chuan-Ju Wang - Academia Sinica
Wlodek Zadrozny - University of North Carolina in Charlotte
Workshop Organizing committee
Hsin-Hsi Chen, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
MOST Joint Research Center for AI Technology and All Vista Healthcare, Taiwan
Hiroya Takamura, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Hen-Hsen Huang, Department of Computer Science, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Chung-Chi Chen, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Shared Task Organizing committee
Ismail El Maarouf, Fortia Financial Solutions
Rémi JUGE, Fortia Financial Solutions
Dialekti VALSAMOU-STANISLAWSKI, Fortia Financial Solutions
Venue
In conjunction with IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 @ July 11th-13th, 2020, Yokohama, Japan
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to finnlp [at] nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw
Sponsors
MOST JOINT RESEARCH CENTER FOR AI TECHNOLOGY AND ALL VISTA HEALTHCARE, Taiwan