You are invited to participate in the upcoming 7th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications (WOSP 2018) to be held in conjunction with the 2018 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018) on May 7, 2018 in Miyazaki, Japan.

The submission deadline is Wednesday, March 14, 2018.

Call for papers:

May 7, 2018 – Miyazaki, Japan

Workshop page: https://wosp.core.ac.uk/lrec2018/
Conference page: http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wospworkshop

1. INTRODUCTION

The entire body of research literature is currently estimated at 100-150 million publications with an annual increase of around 1.5 million. Research literature constitutes the most complete representation of knowledge we have assembled as human species. It enables us to develop cures to diseases, solve difficult engineering problems and answer many of the world’s challenges we are facing today. Systematically reading and analysing the full body of knowledge is now beyond the capacities of any human being. Consequently, it is important to better understand how we can leverage Natural Language Processing/Text Mining techniques to aid knowledge creation and improve the process by which research is being done.

This workshop aims to bring together people from different backgrounds who:
(a) have experience with analysing and mining databases of scientific publications,
(b) develop systems that enable such analysis and mining of scientific databases (especially those who publication databases) or
(c) who develop novel technologies that improve the way research is being done.

2. TOPICS

The topics of the workshop will be organised around the following themes:

1. The whole ecosystem of infrastructures including repositories, aggregators, text-and data-mining facilities, impact monitoring tools, datasets, services and APIs that enable analysis of large volumes of scientific publications.
2. Semantic enrichment of scientific publications by means of text and data mining.
3. Analysis of large databases of scientific publications to identify research trends, high impact and improve access to research content.

3. SPECIAL OPEN PUBLICATIONS DATASET TRACK

This year we would like to invite the workshop participants to make use of the CORE publications dataset containing over 8 million full texts of research papers from a wide variety of research areas. The dataset contains not only full-texts, but also an enriched version of publications’ metadata. This dataset provides a framework for developing and testing methods and tools addressing the workshop topics. The use of this dataset is not mandatory; however, it is encouraged. The dataset is available through the CORE portal: http://core.ac.uk/intro/data_dumps

In addition to offering the dataset we are also considering to run a shared task involving the use of the OpenMinTeD infrastructure for mining scientific papers.

4. SUBMISSION FORMAT

We invite submissions related to the workshop’s topics. Long papers should not exceed 8 pages and short papers should not exceed 4 pages of the LREC style. Furthermore, we welcome demo presentations of systems or methods. A demonstration submission should consist of a maximum two-page description of the system, method or tool to be demonstrated. All submissions will be uploaded to the START system for a peer-review.

The LREC proceedings template can be found on the LREC website: http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/authors-kit/. Papers should be submitted using the START system at https://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/WOSP/.

5. IMPORTANT DATES

Wednesday, March 14, 11:59 (Hawaii time) -- New submission deadline
Saturday, April 7 -- Notification of acceptance
Saturday, April 21 -- Camera-ready
Monday, May 7 -- Workshop

The dates are at this stage indicative only and can change.

6. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

7. ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Petr Knoth, Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, UK
Drahomira Herrmannova, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Richard Eckart de Castilho, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

8. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Iana Atanassova, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France
Joeran Beel, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland
Marc Bertin, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Debsindhu Bhowmik, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Johan Bollen, Indiana University, USA
José Borbinha, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Tanmoy Chakraborty, University of Maryland, USA
Daniel Duma, Alan Turing Institute, UK
Shang Gao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Stephen Gilbert, Iowa State University, USA
C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Christopher G. Harris, SUNY Oswego, USA
Saeed Ul Hassan, Information Technology University, Pakistan
Monica Ihli, University of Tennessee, USA
Antoine Isaac, Europeana, The Netherlands
Roman Kern, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Birger Larsen, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark
Paolo Manghi, Italian National Research Council, Italy
Bruno Martins, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Philipp Mayr, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
Peter Mutschke, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
Francesco Osborne, The Open University, UK
Robert M. Patton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Eloy Rodrigues, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Angelo Antonio Salatino, The Open University, UK
Pavel Smrz, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Christopher G. Stahl, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Wojtek Sylwestrzak, University of Warsaw, Poland
Dominika Tkaczyk, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Ziqi Zhang, Nottingham Trent University, UK