The Role of Learning -- You can't Learn what's not there: Self Supervised Learning and the Poverty of the Stimulus -- Scaling Federated Learning for Fine-tuning of Large Language Models -- Overcoming the Knowledge Bottleneck Using Lifelong Learning by Social Agents -- Methodological Approaches -- Word Embedding-based Topic Similarity Measures -- Mixture Variational Autoencoder of Boltzmann Machines for Text Processing -- A Modular Approach for Romanian-English Speech Translation -- NumER: A Fine-grained Numeral Entity Recognition Dataset -- Cross-Domain Transfer of Generative Explanations using Text-to-Text Models -- Semantic Relations -- Virus Causes Flu: Identifying Causality in the Biomedical Domain using an Ensemble Approach with Target-specific Semantic Embeddings -- Multilevel Entity-Informed Business Relation Extraction -- The Importance of Character-Level Information in an Event Detection Model -- Classification -- Sequence-based Word Embeddings for Effective Text Classification -- BERT-Capsule Model for Cyberbullying Detection in Code-Mixed Indian Languages -- Multiword Expression Features for Automatic Hate Speech Detection -- Semantic Text Segment Classification of Structured Technical Content -- On the Generalization of Figurative Language Detection: the Case of Irony and Sarcasm -- Extracting Facts from Case Rulings through Paragraph Segmentation of Judicial Decisions -- Detection of Misinformation about COVID-19 in Brazilian Portuguese WhatsApp Messages -- Sentiment Analysis -- Multi-Step Transfer Learning for Sentiment Analysis -- Improving Sentiment Classification in Low Resource Bengali Language Utilizing Cross-lingual Self-supervised Learning -- Human Language Comprehension in Aspect Phrase Extraction with Importance Weighting -- Exploring Summarization to Enhance Headline Stance Detection -- Predicting Vaccine Hesitancy and Vaccine Sentiment using Topic Modeling and Evolutionary Optimization -- Sentiment Progression based Searching and Indexing of Literary Textual Artefacts -- Social Media -- Argument Mining in Tweets: Comparing Crowd and Expert Annotations for Automated Claim and Evidence Detection -- Authorship Attribution using Capsule-based Fusion Approach -- On the Explainability of Automatic Predictions of Mental Disorders from Social Media Data -- Linking Documents -- Using Document Embeddings for Background Linking of News Articles -- Let's Summarize Scientific Documents! A Clustering-based Approach via Citation Context -- Multimodality -- Cross-Active Connection for Image-Text Multimodal Feature Fusion -- Profiling Fake News Spreaders: Personality and Visual Information Matter 315 -- Applications -- Comparing MultiLingual and Multiple MonoLingual Models for Intent Classification and Slot Filling -- Automated Retrieval of Graphical User Interface Prototypes from Natural Language Requirements.