★Full name: 2024 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval ★Abbreviation: NLPIR 2024 ★Website: www.nlpir.net ★Date：December 13-15, 2024 ★Held in: Okayama, Japan (Okayama University, Japan) ★Sponsored by: Okayama University, Japan ★Call for papers★ Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: Fundamentals of data science, data & text mining, interactive systems, information mining and psycholinguistic Resources for basic NLP tasks (word segmentation, tagging, stemming, parsing and syntactical analysis, corpus-based language engineering, named entity recognition, syntactic analysis, semantic analysis, discourse analysis, speech recognition, speech synthesis, etc.) Automated knowledge aquisition and representation Natural language understanding Topic recognition and topic tracking, subject indexing Event and anomaly detection - Sentiment analysis Opinion, personality and emotion detection in social media Author identification and plagiarism detection Document summerisation and identification Similarity analysis, clustering, hierarchic clustering Methods for Classification and Categorisation Visualisation of NLP and IR results More Topics, please visit at http://www.nlpir.net/topics.html ★ Publication: Accepted papers will be published by International Conference Proceedings Series, indexed by Ei Compendex, Scopus, etc. **NLPIR 2018-2023 ACM Conference Proceedings has been online in ACM Digital Library, and indexed by Ei Compendex and Scopus already. NLPIR 2023 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 979-8-4007-0922-7) NLPIR 2022 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 978-1-4503-9762-9) NLPIR 2021 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 978-1-4503-8735-4) NLPIR 2020 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 978-1-4503-7760-7) NLPIR 2019 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 978-1-4503-6279-5) NLPIR 2018 ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 978-1-4503-6551-2) ★Submission★ 1. Submitted papers should be prepared according to the paper template and Manuscripts should be at least 8 pages (Single column) 2. The submitted paper is requested to be written in complete English. Paper Template for Docx: http://www.nlpir.net/template.docx Paper Template for LaTex: https://www.nlpir.net/LaTeX.zip *Electronic Submission System Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nlpir2024 You will receive the submission confirmation email from the conference email after around 2 working days. If you haven't received it, please contact us as soon as possible. (Email: nlpir@asr.org) More details about submission, please visit at http://www.nlpir.net/submission.html ★Conference Venue: Okayama University, Japan Address: 1 Chome-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Kita Ward, Okayama, Japan ★★Contact us: Ms. Sophie Chen (Conference Secretary) Email:nlpir@asr.org Conference Website: www.nlpir.net