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)

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 keynote speakers and two shared tasks, 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 RKGs/SKGs - Question Answering over RKGs/SKGs - 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 7, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: April 4, 2024 - Deadline for camera-ready papers: April 18, 2024

Submissions

The NSLP workshop invites submissions of regular long papers (up to 15 pages, Springer LNCS style), position papers, and short papers (up to 8 pages, Springer LNCS style) presenting negative results, in-progress projects, and demos. We especially encourage submissions from junior researchers and students from diverse backgrounds.

We’ll attempt to publish the proceedings of the workshop in an Open Access book volume.

Shared tasks

The workshop will offer two shared tasks:

- FoRC: Field of Research Classification of Scholarly Publications - SOMD: Software Mention Detection in Scholarly Publications

The NSLP 2024 website https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/ provides more information on the shared 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