CfP - 2nd Bridge on Artificial Intelligence for Scholarly Communication (AI4SC)@AAAI2026

Dear colleagues,


We cordially invite you to submit your papers to the second Bridge on Artificial Intelligence for Scholarly Communication (AI4SC), co-located with the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence!


BRIDGE INFO

Bridge day and location: January 20, 2026 | Singapore

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ai4sc/editions/ai4sc-2026-40th-aaai [1]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14997014/ [2]


Submissions deadline: October 31, 2025

Submissions via TIB-OP: https://www.tib-op.org/ojs/index.php/ocp/login [3]


The Second AAAI bridge on AI for Scholarly Communication (AI4SC) aims to gather researchers from all disciplines who are developing or using AI related to scholarly communication to share their methods, approaches, experiences, identify common problems, facilitate collaboration and define future research directions. By bringing together experts in computer science and researchers across various domains, we aim to tackle real-world problems using AI and maximize the impact of scientific research in an interdisciplinary approach.


An essential part of the bridge are discussion sessions. During the second edition, the community will discuss the following research questions:

 - How can AI be effectively used in scholarly communication?

 - Which tools should be used for which purpose?

 - What methodologies, methods, and tools are being developed for AI in scholarly communication?

 - Which ethical questions must be addressed to avoid misuse of AI in scholarly communication?


For reference, please see a paper written by last year's workshop participants: Jiomekong, A., McGinty, H. K., Mills, K. G., Oelen, A., Rajabi, E., McElroy, H., Christou, A., Saini, A., Zebaze, J.A., Kim, H., Jacyszyn, A.M., & Auer, S. (2025). Charting the Future of Scholarly Knowledge with AI: A Community Perspective. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.02581, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.02581 [4]


IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions open: October 1

Submissions deadline: October 31, end of the day AoE

Acceptance notice: November 14

Early bird AAAI registration closes: November 16

Camera-ready submission deadline: November 28, end of the day AoE

Bridge takes place: January 20, 2026 @ AAAI


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of special relevance for the bridge include, but are not limited to:

 - Best practices and lessons learned in applying AI to scholarly communication

 - Intertwining knowledge graphs and neural approaches (neurosymbolic systems)

 - Design and development of scholarly methodologies and tools for knowledge extraction and organization

 - Ethics, responsibility, and trust in AI-driven scholarly communication

 - Measuring and evaluating the impact of AI in scientific research

Given that LLMs is the state-of-the-art in several NLP tasks, a particular attention will be oriented towards the use of LLMs for scientific knowledge extraction and organization.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submit your contribution via the TIB Open Publishing: https://www.tib-op.org/ojs/index.php/ocp/login (select "The Second Bridge on Artificial Intelligence for Scholarly Communication").


Submissions of up to four pages for short and eight pages for long papers, excluding references and appendices, are welcome. The contributions cannot be shorter than two pages. Authors need to use the LaTeX template: https://tib.eu/cloud/s/94jEPGCnGKDwoNK [5] or the Word template: https://tib.eu/cloud/s/zdtLMrpD3TR2s7F [6] of TIB Open Publishing. Submissions need to comply with the submission guidelines and checklist: https://www.tib-op.org/ojs/index.php/ocp/about/submissions [7].


ORGANIZERS

The organizing committee alphabetically:

  *   Sören Auer, TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library, Hannover, Germany, auer@tib.eu
  *   Dirk Betz, TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library, Hannover, Germany, dirk.betz@tib.eu
  *   Claudia Biniossek, TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library, Hannover, Germany, claudia.biniossek@tib.eu
  *   Anna Jacyszyn, *bridge chair*, FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany, anna.jacyszyn@fiz-karlsruhe.de
  *   Azanzi Jiomekong, Department of Computer Science, University of Yaounde I, Cameroon + TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library, Hannover, Germany, Germany, fidel.jiomekong@facsciences-uy1.cm
  *   Hannah Kim, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, hannah.kim0007@temple.edu
  *   Hande Küçük McGinty, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA, hande@ksu.edu
  *   Allard Oelen, TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library, Hannover, Germany, allard.oelen@tib.eu
  *   Gollam Rabby, TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library, Hannover, Germany, gollam.rabby@tib.eu
  *   Enayat Rajabi, Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, enayat_rajabi@cbu.ca


We would be delighted to receive your submission! Also, we kindly ask you to forward this email to your colleagues who may be interested in our Bridge