Workshop Room: Copenhagen
Virtual Platform: https://lrec2024.conflux.events/app/schedule/session/1585
FinNLP has emerged since 2019 as one of the pivotal workshops dedicated to harnessing NLP for financial technology applications. By collocating with representative conferences like IJCAI, EMNLP, and IJCNLP-AACL, it has bridged the AI and NLP communities. Its proceedings can be accessed on the ACL Anthology. On the other hand, KDF, initiated in 2020 as a workshop at AAAI, concentrates on multimodal knowledge discovery for financial services. It's particularly renowned for its keynote speaker series, inviting both academic and industry researchers to shed light on the latest topics. Recognizing the consistent efforts and contributions of both workshops over the years, we believe it's an opportune moment to convene their audiences, reflecting on achievements of the past five years and envisaging the roadmap for the next half-decade.
The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in financial technology has been extensive. A significant observation is the diminishing barriers between diverse data modalities and also between distinct model architectures of different tasks. This progress emerges particularly after the inception of the Transformer model and potential of large language models (LLMs) as foundation models or generic resolvers of variety of NLP tasks. For instance, financial question-answering diverged from conventional machine reading comprehension tasks in NLP, such as SQuAD. This divergence was mainly attributed to the integration of knowledge from tabular data and image data. Given these advancements, we are plan to expand the purview of both workshops. We are confident that such a merger will generate unprecedented synergy.
[Update for March] We are pleased to announce that ECONLP will be joining forces with FinNLP-KDF to host a larger, joint workshop.
Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2024
Paper Notification: March 20th
Camera-Ready Deadline: March 27th
Submission System: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/finnlp-kdf2024/
FinNLP-KDF-ECONLP-2024: May 20, 2024
Accepted papers proceedings will be published at ACL Anthology.Â