NSLP 2024: 1st International Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs Aldemar Knossos Royal & Royal Villa Hersonissos, Greece, May 26-27, 2024

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 Research Knowledge Graphs including all relevant sub-topics. NSLP 2024 is a full-day workshop co-located with ESWC 2024 to be held in Crete (Greece) in May 2024. The workshop consists of two keynote speakers as well as presentations and posters of accepted papers.

In addition, the workshop offers two shared tasks:

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

Participants can sign up for one or more (sub-)tasks. Automated evaluations of submitted systems are done through the Codalab platform.

Submission Guidelines

The NSLP 2024 workshop invites submissions of regular long papers, position papers, and short papers presenting negative results, in-progress projects, and demos. We especially encourage submissions from junior researchers and students from diverse backgrounds.

• We will not accept work that is under review or has already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal, another conference, or another workshop.
• 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.
• Authors are permitted to include an optional appendix of up to 2 pages. However, reviewers will not be mandated to review the appendix and all papers must be self-contained.
• Reviewing will be performed double-blind. Reviewers will not actively try to identify the authors.
• Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see Springer’s Author Instructions.
• The proceedings of this workshop will be published in an Open Access proceedings volume.
• At least one author per contribution must register for the conference for presentation.
• Submission is done through EasyChair. 

List of Topics

This workshop aims to attract researchers who use methods or technologies from the Semantic Web, NLP, and Language Technology areas, promoting the exchange of ideas and collaborations between those communities. The workshop addresses current topics and issues in NSLP and Research Knowledge Graphs (RKGs).

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

Committees

Program Committee

• Rana Abdullah, Universität Hamburg, Germany
• Marcel R. Ackermann, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics (LZI), DBLP, Germany
• Ekaterina Borisova, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Germany
• Davide Buscaldi, LIPN, CNRS, University Paris 13, France
• Daniel Garijo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Paul Groth, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Robert Jäschke, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
• Petr Knoth, Open University, UK
• Wolfgang Otto, GESIS Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
• Haris Papageorgiou, R.C. Athena, Greece
• Diego Reforgiato Recupero, University of Cagliari, Italy
• David Schindler, University of Rostock, Germany
• Jennifer D’Souza, TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Germany
• Tilahun Taffa, Universität Hamburg, Germany
• Ricardo Usbeck, Leuphana University, Germany

Organizing committee

• Georg Rehm (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Germany)
• Sonja Schimmler (Technical University of Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)
• Stefan Dietze (GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften & Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany)
• Frank Krüger (Wismar University of Applied Sciences, Germany)

Invited Speakers

• Natalia Manola, OpenAIRE CEO, Greece
• Francesco Osborne, Open University, UK

Publication

The NSLP 2024 proceedings will be published as an Open Access volume in the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) at Springer.

Venue

The conference will be held in Hersonissos, Crete, Greece. NSLP 2024 is co-located with ESWC 2024.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Georg Rehm <georg.rehm@dfki.de>.