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=== CALL FOR PAPERS & SHARED TASKS === **************************************************************************** The 2nd International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA ’26) held in conjunction with the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR '26), April 2nd, 2026 – Delft, The Netherlands Website: https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/scolia-2026 ****************************************************************************

Dear colleagues,

You are invited to submit your contribution to the 2nd International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA 2026), following SCOLIA 2025 and the successful BIR workshop series (https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/), to be held as part of the 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026, https://ecir2026.eu/) in Delft, The Netherlands.

https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/scolia-2026

The workshop is planned as an onsite event. We encourage all speakers to join us in Delft (NL).

=== Important Dates === All dates are in Anywhere on Earth – AoE Time Zone

- Submissions: 19th January 2026 - Notifications: 1st March 2026 - Camera Ready Contributions: 15th March 2026 - Workshop: 2nd April 2026

=== tl;dr === The SCOLIA (SChOLarly Information Access) workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Scientometrics/Bibliometrics who are working on the analysis of scientific/scholarly documents. The SCOLIA workshop at ECIR is a half-day workshop.

=== Keywords === Academic Information Access • Information Retrieval • Recommendation • Conversational Interfaces • Digital Libraries • Bibliometrics • Scientometrics • Natural Language Processing

=== Workshop Topics === SCOLIA 2026 addresses current research issues regarding the broad scope of scholarly information access in the age of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and GenAI. Submissions should discuss, but are not limited to, the following topics:

* Construction of scholarly information access systems for tasks such as search, recommendation, or conversational information access, e.g., * Chatting with papers via chatbots * Bibliometrics & Scientometrics and IR * Finding relevant papers/authors for a literature review * Identifying expert reviewers for a given submission * Information extraction, text mining and parsing of scholarly literature * Recommendation of citations based on the context * Discourse modelling and argument mining * Retrieval-augmented Generation for LLM-enhanced academic search and recommendation * Agent-based scholarly search and recommendation * Challenges and opportunities for scholarly information access coming from GenAI and LLMs.

* Evaluation of scholarly information access systems, e.g., * Quantification of the suitability of the output produced by an LLM * Evaluation challenges of generative AI and LLMs for scholarly texts and references * Simulated users.

* User Models and Collections, e.g., * Understanding information-seeking behaviour and HCI in academic search * Modelling the multifaceted nature of scientific information interaction * Building test collections.

* Pre- and Post-Publication Quality Insurance and Scientific Integrity, e.g., * Filtering high-quality research papers, e.g., in preprint servers * Tracking and taming error propagation in the scientific record or scientific misbehaviour * Detecting "Fake Science", low quality or automatically generated papers, scientific fact checking and claim verification * Measuring the degree of plagiarism in a paper * Flagging predatory conferences and journals.

We especially invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work as well as contributions from industry. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome.

=== Submission Details === All submissions must be written in English following the CEURART 1-column paper style (6 pages (short paper), 12 pages (full paper), please see below) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair.

In addition to regular research papers we encourage the submission of shared task proposals (4 pages). Shared tasks are to be presented at SCOLIA 2026 and carried out so that participants’ results can be presented at SCOLIA 2027 in a dedicated session. Proposals should contain a brief discussion the tasks to be carried out highlighting their connection to SCOLIA’s goals, artefacts expected to be submitted by participants, the evaluation setup including datasets and measures, a preliminary timeline as well as details on organisers.

All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program.

* CEURART: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip, Overleaf template of CEURART: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-wo...

* Submission via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scolia2026

Page limits: * Full paper: 12 pages excluding references * Short paper: 6 pages excluding references * Shared task proposal: 4 pages excluding references

Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - this way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long-term preservation).

=== Workshop Chairs === Ingo Frommholz, Modul University Vienna, Austria Christin Kreutz, TH Mittelhessen & Herder Institute, Germany Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse & Institut Universitaire de France, France

For any enquiries please email scolia2026@easychair.org.

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— Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, Dipl.-Inform., FBCS, FHEA Professor and Head of School of Applied Data Science Modul University Vienna, Austria Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Chair, BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group, UK Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz@acm.org Bluesky: @frommholz.org | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social