The Financial Narrative Processing (FNP) Workshop Series

As financial markets become increasingly data-driven, the role of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and AI in analysing financial narratives has never been more critical. In recent years, small-scale manual research in Accounting and Finance has been significantly enhanced and scaled up using these advanced computational techniques.

For over five years, FNP has been at the forefront of Financial NLP, hosting six+ international events, introducing NLP and AI shared tasks, and providing essential datasets and methodologies that drive innovation in this growing field. Our workshops have brought together researchers and practitioners to explore cutting-edge approaches for extracting, summarising, and analysing both qualitative and quantitative financial data.

🔍 Explore our research and past workshop proceedings:
📌 FNP Google Scholar Profile – Lancaster University

Topics of Interest in Financial NLP

We invite research that applies state-of-the-art NLP techniques to financial narratives, including but not limited to:

✅ Core NLP Tasks: Tokenisation, morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, chunking, parsing, and semantic role labelling.
✅ Financial Sentiment & Readability: Sentiment analysis, document quality assessment, and advanced readability metrics for financial texts.
✅ AI & Ethics in Finance: NLP-driven research on gender and ethnicity imbalances, as well as studies addressing mental health and well-being in financial reporting.
✅ Under-Resourced Languages & Markets: Encouraging research on financial narratives in Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, and other underrepresented financial markets.
✅ Financial Summarisation: In collaboration with MultiLing, we explore multi-document summarisation, headline generation, and cross-lingual summarisation across financial domains (e.g., company blogs, product reviews, market briefs).
✅ Regulatory & Multilingual Research: Given the global nature of finance, we welcome studies that examine different regulatory regimes and multilingual financial narratives beyond English.

The FNP Workshop is a key venue for scholars, industry professionals, and regulators to exchange ideas, share resources, and push the boundaries of Financial NLP. Join us in shaping the future of automated financial analysis!

Previous Workshops:

  1. The 6th Financial Narrative Processing (FNP 2023) held at the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025), Abu Dhabi, UAE 19 to 24 January 2025(65 attendees – 2-day event). http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2025.
  2. The 5th Financial Narrative Processing (FNP 2023) held at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2023), Sorrento, Italy, from 15 to 18 December 2023(25 attendees).  http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2023.
  3. The 4th Financial Narrative Processing (FNP 2022) to be held at 13th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022), Marseille, France on 24 June 2022 (35 attendees). http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2022.
  4. The 3rd Financial Narrative Processing (FNP 2021) workshops as a standalone event organised by Lancaster University and Yseop, Lancaster, United Kingdom. 22 papers, 125 registrations and attendees from 87 cities from 35 countries. http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2021 
  5. The 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation (FNP-FNS 2020) workshop at The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING’2020), Barcelona, Spain on 12 December 2020, 36 papers and a total of 37 registrations. http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2020
  6. The Multiling Summarisation workshops 2011 (TAC, USA), 2013 (ACL, Bulgaria), 2015 (SIGDIAL, Czech), 2017 (ACL, Canada) and 2019 (RANLP, Bulgaria). Including the First Financial Narrative Summarisation Task at Multiling 2019 at RANLP 2019 Varna, Bulgaria. 20 attendees. http://multiling.iit.demokritos.gr
  7. The 2nd Financial Narrative Processing (FNP 2019) workshops at the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa’19), Turku, Finland. 11 papers, 21 attendees http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2019
  8. First and Second Workshops on Textual Analysis Methods in Accounting and Finance at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS), Lancaster University, September 2018 and September 2019 in Lancaster, UK. 40 Attendees each.   http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/tamaf2018and  http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/tamaf2019/
  9. The 1st Financial Narrative Processing (FNP 2018) workshop at the 11th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018), May 2018 in Miyazaki, Japan. 11 papers with around 20 attendees. http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2018 

Previous Proceedings

All FNP proceedings across the years are on ACL Anthology: https://aclanthology.org/venues/fnp/. The 1st FNP was associated with LREC 2018 http://lrec-conf.org/workshops/lrec2018/W27/pdf/book_of_proceedings.pdf 

FNP 2025 (joint workshiop with FinNLP, LLMFinLegal 2025), proceedings can be found on here: https://coling-2025-proceedings.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/workshops/FinNLP-FNP-LLMFinLegal/program.html

FNP Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=8Qn7yJ8AAAAJ