2nd International Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP 2025)

01 or 02 June 2025 (tbc)

Portoroz, Slovenia

(NSLP 2025 is co-located with ESWC 2025)

https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2025/

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 2nd International Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP) aims to bring together researchers working on the processing, analysis, transformation and exploitation of scientific language and research knowledge graphs including all relevant sub-topics. NSLP 2025 is a full-day workshop co-located with ESWC 2025 to be held in Portoroz, Slovenia on 01 or 02 June 2025 (to be confirmed). The workshop features two shared tasks (see below) and a keynote speaker 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

Other types of usage of RKGs/SKGs for downstream applications

Scientific LLMs: LLMs for Natural Scientific Language Processing (NSLP)

NSLP (monolingual, cross-lingual, multilingual)

Language Resources and Language Technologies for NSLP

Domain-specific Adaptation of NSLP Methods

Information Extraction from Scholarly Publications

Classification of Scholarly Publications (document collections, individual documents, parts of documents)

Summarisation of Scholarly Publications

Scholarly Information Retrieval and Scientific Search Engines

Digital Libraries of Scholarly Information

Bibliometrics and Scientometrics

Micropublications and Nanopublications


Important dates

Paper submission deadline: 06 March 2025

Notification of acceptance: 03 April 2025

Camera-ready submission: 17 April 2025

Workshop: 01 or 02 June 2025 (tbc)


Submissions

The NSLP 2025 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.

The workshop invites anonymous submissions of regular long papers (up to 15 pages without references and appendix) and short papers (up to 8 pages without references and appendix) presenting negative results, in-progress projects, and demos. In both categories, position papers can be submitted as well.

Authors are permitted to include an optional appendix of up to 2 pages. However, reviewers will not be mandated to review the appendix; 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).

The proceedings of this workshop will be published as an Open Access volume in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), fully sponsored by the NFDI4DS project.

At least one author per contribution must register for the conference for presentation as ESWC 2025 (including all workshops) is an in-person event.

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.

All submissions are done via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=nslp2025


Shared tasks

NSLP 2025 offers two shared tasks:

MESD: Metadata Extraction from Scholarly Documents

ReadMe2KG: Github ReadMe to Knowledge


The NSLP 2025 website provides more information on the shared tasks. The relevant important dates for the two shared tasks will be announced in early January 2025.

Confirmed keynote speaker

Michele Pasin, Digital Science, UK


Organisers

Georg Rehm, DFKI & HU Berlin, Germany

Sonja Schimmler, TU Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

Stefan Dietze, GESIS & HHU Düsseldorf, Germany

Natalia Manola, OpenAIRE, Greece


Contact

Georg Rehm (georg.rehm@dfki.de)