The 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing 
Financial Summarisation (FNP-FNS 2020)


To be held at The 28th International Conference on Computational 
Linguistics (COLING'2020), Barcelona, Spain on 13 September 2020.
Workshop URL: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2020/

SoftConf Submission URL: https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/FNP-FNS/


We introduce 3 shared tasks as follows:
1) Financial summarisation (FNS 2020),
2) Financial Reports structure detection (FinTOC 2020),
3) Causality Identification in Financial documents (FinCausal 2020).
Links to shared tasks can be found on: 
http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/shared-tasks/

IMPORTANT DATES:
First call for workshop papers Dec 1, 2019
First call for shared task participants Dec 1, 2019
Second call for workshop papers Mar 18, 2020
Second call for shared task participants Mar 18, 2020
Shared task results due May 1, 2020
Shared task papers due May 15, 2020
Workshop papers due May 20, 2020
Notification of acceptance Jun 24, 2020
Camera-ready papers due Jul 11, 2020
Workshop and shared task dates Sep 13, 2020


WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
This is the first joint workshop between FNP and MultiLing workshops 
(http://multiling.iit.demokritos.gr/), both workshops have been running 
for several years with great success.
The joint workshop will focus on the use of Natural Language Processing 
(NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Corpus Linguistics (CL) methods 
related to all aspects of financial text mining and financial narrative 
processing (FNP) in addition to demonstrating the value and challenges 
of applying summarisation to multilingual financial text, usually 
referred to as financial narrative disclosures.
There is a growing interest in the application of automatic and 
computer-aided approaches for extracting, summarising, and analysing 
both qualitative and quantitative financial data.


MOTIVATION AND TOPICS OF INTEREST:
Financial narrative disclosures represent a large part of firms overall 
financial communications with investors.
Textual commentaries help to clarify issues obscured by complex 
accounting methods and footnote disclosures.
In addition, narratives summarise corporate strategy, contextualise 
results, explain governance arrangements, describe corporate social 
responsibility policy, and provide forward-looking information for 
investors.


CALL FOR PAPERS:
We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, 
the following:
- Applying core technologies on financial narratives: morphological 
analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity 
recognition, chunking, parsing, semantic role labelling, sentiment 
analysis, document quality and advanced readability metrics etc.
- Using NLP to detect misreporting in relation to diversity and 
wellbeing on issues related to gender, ethnicity, women at work as well 
as employee mental health and stability.
- Financial narratives resources: dictionaries, annotated data, tools 
and technologies etc.
- Given the international nature of the conference, we particularly 
welcome FNP papers reporting non- English and multilingual research, 
describing the different regulatory regimes within which companies 
operate internationally. Summarisation across domains and sources that 
are related to finance (e.g. company blogs, product reviews, market 
briefs, etc.), this includes financial multilingual and cross-lingual 
summarisation using single-document summarisation, multi-document 
summarisation, summarisation evaluation, headline generation, 
cross-domain/cross-topic summarisation.


ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

- Dr Mahmoud El-Haj, Lancaster University (General Chair)
- Dr Houda Bouamor, CMU, Qatar (FNP Program Chair)
- Dr Marina Litvak, Shamoon Academic College of Engineering (FNS Program 
Chair)
- Dr Paul Rayson, Lancaster University (FNP Program Chair)
- Dr Vasiliki Athanasakou, Saint Mary’s University (FNP-FNS Program 
Chair and Advisor)
- Dr George Giannakopoulos, NCSR Demokritos (FNS Program Chair)
- Dr Sira Ferradans, Fortia Financial Solution (Publication Chair, 
FinToc Shared Task Organiser)
- Naja-Imane Bentabet, Fortia Financial Solution (FinToc Shared Task 
Organiser)
- Remi Juge, Fortia Financial Solution (FinToc Shared Task Organiser)
- Dr Catherine Salzedo, Lancaster University (FNP-FNS Publicity Chair)
- Nikiforos Pittaras, NCSR Demokritos (Publicity Chair and FNS Shared 
Task Organiser)
- Ahmed AbuRaed, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (FNS Shared Task Organiser)
- Dr Ans Elhag, Lancaster University (FNP-FNS Publication Chair)
- Dominique Mariko, yseop.com (FinCausal Shared Task Orgnaiser)
- Anubhav Gupta, yseop.com (FinCausal Shared Task Orgnaiser)
- Hanna Abi-Akl, yseop.com (FinCausal Shared Task Orgnaiser)
- Hugues de Mazancourt, yseop.com (FinCausal Shared Task Orgnaiser)


ANTI-HARASSMENT POLICY:
The workshop supports the ACL anti-harassment policy.
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy

CONTACT:
For any questions please contact General Chair: m.el-haj at lancaster.ac.uk

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