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/