Dear colleagues and friends,

*We invite submissions to a special issue on "Information Extraction and Language Discourse Processing" of journal Information https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information (ISSN 2078-2489).*

*Special Issue Information*

This Special Issue seeks novel research reports on the spectrum that blends information extraction and language discourse processing research in diverse communities. The editors welcome submissions along various dimensions derived from the nature of the extraction task, the advanced neural techniques used for extraction, the variety of input resources exploited, and the type of output produced. Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods studies are welcome, as are case studies and experience reports if they describe an impactful application at a scale that delivers useful lessons to the journal readership.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Knowledge base population with discourse-centric information extraction (IE) - Coreference resolution and its impact on discourse-centric IE - Relationship extraction leveraging linguistic discourse - Template filling - Impact of pragmatics or rhetorics on information extraction - Discourse-centric IE at scale - Intelligent and novel assessment models of discourse-centric IE - Survey of discourse-centric IE in natural language processing (NLP) - Challenges implementing discourse-centric IE in real-world scenarios - Modeling domains using discourse-centric IE - Human–AI hybrid systems for learning discourse and IE

*Submission Instructions* https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/WYS02U2GTD

*Deadline for manuscript submissions* Submissions to the SI will be accepted and published on a rolling basis until the close of the issue on 10 December 2022

Yours cordially, Dr. Jennifer D'Souza Prof. Dr. Chengzhi Zhang *Guest Editors*