Introduction

摘要

Welcome to ECONLP 2018, the First Workshop on Economics and Natural Language Processing held at ACL 2018 in Melbourne, Australia on July 20, 2018. This workshop addresses the increasing relevance of natural language processing for regional, national and international economy, both in terms of already launched language technology products and systems, as well as new methodologies and techniques emerging in interaction with the paradigm of computational social science and computational economics. The focus of the workshop is on the many ways how NLP alters business relations and procedures, economic transactions, and the roles of human and computational actors involved in economic activities.