The Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI) workshop, supported by the Special Interest Group on NLP of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA) 1 and by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC)2, aims at providing a broad overview of recent activities in the field of Human Language Technologies (HLT) in Italy and foster further research on the topic. Since its first edition in 2017, the workshop has served as a forum for researchers to share insights, collaborate, and discuss innovations at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). As in previous years, this edition of the workshop was held in conjunction with the International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2024) 3, which took place on November 25-28th in Bolzano, Italy. The workshop program is available on the oficial website 4. The workshop covered key topics examining the role of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence applications, including: • NLP and AI Applications (health, legal domain, social media and journalism, etc.) • Natural Language Interfaces for Human-Robot Interaction • Resources and Evaluation • Discourse and Pragmatics • Natural Language Generation • Information extraction in AI applications • Machine Learning for NLP • Sentiment analysis and Opinion mining • Natural Language Inference • NLP and Industrial Challenges • NLP and Knowledge Graphs • Semantics • Conversational Agents in Human-Computer Interaction • Cognitive modelling and psycholinguistics • Language and other Multimodality • Speech and Spoken language processing • Ethics and NLP
• Interpretability, Explainability and Analysis of Models for NLP • Abusive Language Detection and Analysis • Machine Translation and Multilinguality • Question Answering • Summarization • NLP for Fact Checking, Fake News Detection and Analysis • LLMs and Applications • Multimodal (text-image) data sources
The program co-chairs would like to warmly thank all the authors of the submitted papers, the two invited speakers, and all the participants in this edition. Special thanks go to the Bolzano University (Italy) for hosting the event and to the organizers of the AIxIA 2024 conference. Moreover, we thank the AILC Board members for their trust and support. Finally, we want to acknowledge the support of the PNRR project FAIR - Future AI Research (PE00000013), Spoke 6 - Symbiotic AI (CUP H97G22000210007) under the NRRP MUR program funded by the NextGenerationEU.
The accepted papers are listed below: The workshop also benefited from two keynote speakers whose talks addressed the latest research themes with a huge impact on AI and NLP research. The two invited talks were: • Brando Benifei with a talk titled "The European AI Act: Challenges and opportunities for ethical and responsible artificial intelligence" • Valerio Basile with a talk titled "Modeling and Evaluation for Perspectivist NLP"
As a final remark, the program co-chairs would like to thank all the members of the Program Committee (listed below).