FinNLP-FNP-LLMFinLegal @ COLING-2025 - Call for papers

2024-07-10

We are excited to announce that the upcoming workshop in 2025, the Joint Workshop of the 9th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP), the 6th Financial Narrative Processing (FNP), and the 1st Workshop on Large Language Models for Finance and Legal (LLMFinLegal) will be held in conjunction with COLING-2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on January 19-20, 2025. The two-day workshop will gathering different groups interested in financial NLP.

For our main track, we are inviting submissions for both long and short papers, as well as demonstrations. The proceedings of accepted papers will be published in the ACL Anthology.

We invite submissions on methods, theories, applications, and systems on artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing & understanding, big data, statistical learning, data analytics, and deep learning, with a focus on knowledge discovery in the financial services domain. The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

Language modelling on financial corpora, including tabular and numerical data, and multi-modal modelling
Graph representation learning and mining on financial data
Multi-source knowledge integration and fusion
Synthetic and genuine financial datasets and benchmarks
Transfer learning applications for financial data
Financial search and question answering systems
Event discovery and impact on organisational equity price
ESG event discovery, evaluation, and impact assessment
Compliance monitoring
Cross-disciplinary LLM-based methodologies for financial and legal domains
Applications of LLMs in financial auditing and regulatory reporting
Ethical implications and bias mitigation in AI applications
Hallucination mitigation and evaluation in LLMs
Privacy concerns and data protection strategies
Enhancing interpretability and explainability of LLM models
Responsible AI practices and governance
Methods, evaluation metrics, benchmarks, and datasets for LLMs in finance and law