CFP: NSLP 2024 Workshop – Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs

1st Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP 2024)

26 or 27 May 2024 (tbc)
Hersonissos, Crete, Greece (co-located with ESWC 2024)

Submission deadline (extended): March 14, 2024

https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/ <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/> 

Scientific research is almost exclusively published in unstructured text formats, which are not readily machine-readable. While technological approaches can help to get this flood of scientific information and new knowledge under control, the development of such technologies is very complex in practice and hinders the creation of infrastructures and systems to track research and assist the scientific community with applications such as dedicated scientific search engines and recommender systems. The 1st Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP) aims to bring together researchers working on the processing, analysis, transformation and making-use-of scientific language and RKGs including all relevant sub-topics. NSLP 2024 is a full-day workshop co-located with ESWC 2024 <https://2024.eswc-conferences.org/> to be held in Crete, Greece, in May 2024. The workshop will consist of two invited keynote and two shared tasks (FoRC: Field of Research Classification of Scholarly Publications <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/docs/forc_shared_task.html>, SOMD: Software Mention Detection in Scholarly Publications <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/docs/somd_shared_task.html>), as well as presentations and posters of accepted papers.  

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
Research/Scientific Knowledge Graphs (RKGs/SKGs) and other forms of Structured Scientific Knowledge Representation
Information Extraction for Research/Scientific Knowledge Graphs
Question Answering over Research/Scientific Knowledge Graphs
Scientific LLMs: LLMs for Natural Scientific Language Processing
Natural Scientific Language Processing (monolingual, cross-lingual, multilingual)
Language Resources and Language Technologies for Natural Scientific Language Processing
Information Extraction from Scholarly Publications
Classification of Scholarly Publications (document collections, individual documents, parts of documents)
Summarisation of Scholarly Articles
Scholarly Information Retrieval and Scientific Search Engines 
Digital Libraries of Scholarly Information
Metadata and Cataloging 
Bibliometrics and Scientometrics 
Domain-specific Adaptation of Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods for NSLP purposes
Micropublications and Nanopublications
Important dates
Deadline for submissions: March 07, 2024 – March 14, 2024 (deadline extended)
Notification of acceptance: April 4, 2024
Deadline for camera-ready papers: April 18, 2024
Submissions

The workshop invites anonymous submissions of regular long papers (up to 15 pages), position papers, and short papers (up to 8 pages) presenting negative results, in-progress projects, and demos. Papers can present negative results, in-progress projects, and demos. We especially encourage submissions from junior researchers and students from diverse backgrounds. Format of submissions: Springer LNCS style (full submission guidelines <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/docs/submission.html>).

Submissions are done via easyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nslp2024 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nslp2024>

The workshop proceedings will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) as an Open Access book. Note that all fees for the Open Access book publication will be covered by the project NFDI4DS, which financially supports this workshop.

Shared tasks 

The workshop offers two shared tasks:
FoRC: Field of Research Classification of Scholarly Publications <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/docs/forc_shared_task.html> (two sub-tasks)
SOMD: Software Mention Detection in Scholarly Publications <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/docs/somd_shared_task.html> (three sub-tasks)
Confirmed keynote speakers
Natalia Manola, OpenAIRE, Greece
Francesco Osborne, Open University, UK
Organisers
Georg Rehm, DFKI, Germany
Sonja Schimmler, TU Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Stefan Dietze, GESIS & HHU Düsseldorf, Germany
Frank Krüger, Wismar University, Germany
Contact
Georg Rehm <georg.rehm@dfki.de <mailto:georg.rehm@dfki.de>> – NSLP 2024 website <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/>

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