AI OPEN 于 2020 年 3 月创刊,专注于分享有关人工智能(AI)理论及其应用的可行知识和前瞻性观点。期刊主编为智源研究院学术副院长、清华大学计算机系唐杰教授。网址:https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ai-open论文链接:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666651021000012#!AIOpen 预训练专刊征稿说明The release of ELMo, BERT and GPT in 2018 indicated the success of pre-trained language models (PLMs), and was followed by a great breakthrough in natural language understanding and generation. Many works have been done to explore more efficient and effective architectures for pre-training; for example, methods to improve pre-trained language models with cross-modal data, cross-lingual data, and structured knowledge, etc., or to innovatively apply PLMs in various NLP-related tasks.This special issue is devoted to gathering and presenting cutting-edge reviews, research and applications of PLMs, providing a platform for researchers to share their recent observations and achievements in this active field.Topics Covered:Novel architectures and algorithms of PLMs*Generative PLMs* Fine-tuning and adaptation of PLMs* Multi-tasking and continual learning of PLMs* Knowledge-guided PLMs* Cross-lingual or multi-lingual PLMs* Cross-modal PLMs* Knowledge distillation and model compression of PLMs* Analysis and probing of PLMs* Applications of PLMs in various areas, such as information retrieval, social computation, and recommendationImportant Deadlines:* Submission deadline: 31 August 2021Submission Instructions:Papers submitted to this journal for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journals. Extended work must have a significant number of "new and original" ideas/contributions along with more than 30% "brand new" material.Please read the Guide for Authors (http://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/ai-open/guide-for-authors/) before submitting. All articles should be submitted online (https://www.editorialmanager.com/aiopen/default.aspx); please select SI: Pre-Trained Language Models on submission.Guest Editors:* Dr. Zhiyuan Liu, Tsinghua University, China. Email: liuzy@tsinghua.edu.cn* Dr. Xipeng Qiu, Fudan University, China. Email: xpqiu@fudan.edu.cn* Dr. Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China. Email: jietang@tsinghua.edu.cn