=== Call for Papers ===
You are invited to participate in the 3rd Joint Workshop on
Bibliometric-enhanced IR and NLP for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL), to be
held as part of 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research
and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018) in Ann Arbor,
Michigan USA on 12th July 2018.
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/~birndl-sigir2018/
This is the third BIRNDL workshop, second at SIGIR, following a series
of successful BIR workshops at ECIR and other premier IR venues. In
conjunction with the BIRNDL workshop, we will also hold the 4th
CL-SciSumm Shared Task in Scientific Document Summarization. Reports
from the shared task systems will be featured as part of a session at
the workshop. http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/cl-scisumm2018/
=== Important Dates ===
- Submissions deadline: May 4, 2018
- Notification: May 25, 2018
- Camera Ready Contributions: June 25, 2018
- Workshop: July 12, 2018 in Ann Arbor Michigan, USA
=== Aim of the Workshop ===
The goal of the BIRNDL workshop at SIGIR is to engage the IR community
about the open problems in academic search. Academic search refers to
the large, cross-domain digital repositories which index research
papers, such as the ACL Anthology, ArXiv, ACM Digital Library, IEEE
database, Web of Science and Google Scholar. Currently, digital
libraries collect and allow access to papers and their metadata ---
including citations --- but mostly do not analyze the items they
index. The scale of scholarly publications poses a challenge for
scholars in their search for relevant literature. Finding relevant
scholarly literature is the key theme of BIRNDL and sets the agenda
for tools and approaches to be discussed and evaluated at the
workshop. We would also like to address the need for established,
standardized baselines, evaluation metrics and test collections.
We invite papers and presentations that incorporate insights from IR,
bibliometrics and NLP to develop new techniques to address the open
problems in Big Science, such as evidence-based searching, measurement
of research quality, relevance and impact, the emergence and decline
of research problems, identification of scholarly relationships and
influences and applied problems such as language translation,
question-answering and summarization.
See the proceedings of the second BIRNDL workshop at SIGIR 2017
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1888/ and http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2002/ and
a recent report in SIGIR Forum http://sigir.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/p107.pdf.
=== Workshop Topics ===
We invite stimulating as well as unpublished submissions on topics
including - but not limited to - full-text analysis, multimedia and
multilingual analysis and alignment as well as the application of
citation-based NLP or information retrieval and information seeking
techniques in digital libraries. Specific examples of fields of
interests include (but are not limited to):
- Infrastructure for scientific mining and IR
- Semantic and Network-based indexing, navigation, searching and browsing in structured data
- Information extraction and parsing tasks in scientific papers
- Population of a science knowledge base and performing inference on it
- Discourse structure identification and argument mining from scientific papers
- Summarisation and question-answering for scholarly DLs;
- Bibliometrics, citation analysis and network analysis for IR
- Task based user modelling, interaction, and personalisation
- Recommendation for scholarly papers, reviewers, citations and publication venues
- Measurement and evaluation of quality and impact
- Metadata and controlled vocabularies for resource description and
discovery; Automatic metadata discovery, such as language identification
- Disambiguation issues in scholarly DLs using NLP or IR techniques;
- Data cleaning and data quality
- Evaluation baselines, metrics and test collections for research problems in IR
For the paper session, 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.
=== The CL-SciSumm Shared Task ===
The CLSciSumm18 corpus is expected to be of interest to a broad
community including those working in computational linguistics and
natural language processing, text summarization, discourse structure
in scholarly discourse, paraphrase, textual entailment and text
simplification.
The task constitutes automatic scientific paper summarization in the
Computational Linguistics (CL) domain. The output summaries will be of
two types: faceted summaries of the traditional self-summary (the
abstract) and the community summary (the collection of citation
sentences ‘citances’). We also propose to group the citances by the
facets of the text that they refer to.
At SIGIR 2018, we will hold the 4th Computational Linguistics (CL)
Scientific Summarization Shared Task
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cl-scisumm2018/ which is sponsored by
Microsoft Research Asia. This task follows up on the successful
CLSciSumm-2017 @ SIGIR 2017, CLScisumm-2016 task @ JCDL 2016, Newark,
NJ, USA and a Pilot Task conducted as a part of the BiomedSumm Track
at the Text Analysis Conference 2014 (TAC 2014). In this task, a
training corpus of ten topics from CL research papers was released.
Participants were invited to enter their systems in a task-based
evaluation.
=== Submission Information ===
- Research track: All submissions must be written in English,
following the Springer LNCS author guidelines (max. 6 pages for short
and 12 pages for full papers; exclusive of unlimited pages for
references) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=birndl2018. 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 submissions and reviewing will be
managed by the EasyChair conference management system.
- Poster track: We welcome submissions detailing original, early
findings, works in progress and industrial applications of
bibliometrics and IR for a special poster session, possibly with a
2-minute presentation in the main session. Some research track papers
will also be invited to the poster track instead, although there will
be no difference in the final proceedings between poster and research
track submissions. These papers should follow the same format as the
research track papers.
- Shared Task: Teams that wish to participate in the CL Shared Task
track at BIRNDL 2018 are invited to register on EasyChair by April
15th with a title and a tentative abstract describing their approach.
Participants are advised to register as soon as possible in order to
receive timely access to evaluation resources, including development
and testing data. Registration for the task does not commit you to
participation - but is helpful to know for planning. All participants
who submit system runs are welcome to present their system at the
BIRNDL Workshop in the poster session, while the best performing
system will be invited to present their paper in the main session.
Dissemination of CL-SciSumm work and results other than in the
workshop proceedings is welcomed, but the conditions of participation
specifically preclude any advertising claims based on these results.
Any questions about conference participation may be sent to the
organizers mentioned below.
=== Organising Committee ===
- Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cmkumar/
- Kokil Jaidka, http://kokiljaidka.wordpress.com/
- Philipp Mayr, https://philippmayr.github.io/