About the workshop

You are invited to participate in the 3rd Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2022) to be held at COLING 2022 (October 12-17, 2022). The SDP 2022 workshop will consist of a Research track and six Shared Tasks. The call for research papers is described below.

Papers must follow the COLING format and conform to the COLING Submission Guidelines. Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system.

Introduction

Although scientific literature plays a major part in research and policy-making, these texts represent an underserved area of NLP. NLP can play a role in addressing research information overload, identifying disinformation and its effect on people and society, and enhancing the reproducibility of science. The unique challenges of processing scholarly documents necessitate the development of specific methods and resources optimized for this domain. The Scholarly Document Processing (SDP) workshop provides a venue for discussing these challenges and bringing together stakeholders from different communities including computational linguistics, text mining, information retrieval, digital libraries, scientometrics, and others to develop and present methods and resources in support of these goals.

This workshop builds on the success of prior workshops: the 1st and 2nd SDP workshop held at EMNLP 2020 and NAACL 2021, and the 1st and 2nd SciNLP workshop held at AKBC 2020 and 2021. In addition to having broad appeal within the NLP community, we hope the SDP workshop will attract researchers from other relevant fields including meta-science, scientometrics, data mining, information retrieval, and digital libraries, bringing together these disparate communities within ACL.

Topics of interest

We invite submissions from all communities demonstrating usage of and challenges associated with natural language processing, information retrieval, and data mining of scholarly and scientific documents. Relevant tasks include (but are not limited to):

  • Representation learning
  • Information extraction
  • Summarization
  • Language generation
  • Question-answering
  • Discourse modeling and argumentation mining
  • Network analysis
  • Bibliometrics, scientometrics, and altmetrics
  • Reproducibility
  • Peer review
  • Search and indexing
  • Datasets and resources
  • Document parsing
  • Text mining
  • Research infrastructure, and others.

We specifically invite research on important or underserved areas, such as:

  1. Identifying/mitigating scientific disinformation and its effects on public policy and behavior
  2. Reducing information overload through summarization and aggregation of information within and across documents
  3. Improving access to scientific papers through multilingual scholarly document processing
  4. Improving research reproducibility by connecting scientific claims to evidence such as data, software, and cited claims

Inclusivity

We encourage submissions from diverse voices. Anyone who self-identifies with an underrepresented demographic, regardless of seniority, scientific background, training, etc., is welcome to submit their work and attend the workshop. We aim to create an inclusive space and look forward to receiving submissions from researchers of all identities, living anywhere, whether first time authors or more experienced writers.

Submission Information

Authors are invited to submit full and short papers with unpublished, original work. Submissions will be subject to a double-blind peer review process. Accepted papers will be presented by the authors at the workshop either as a talk or a poster. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (proceedings from previous years can be found in the ACL Anthology).

The submissions must be in PDF format and anonymized for review. All submissions must be written in English and follow the COLING 2022 formatting requirements.

We follow the same policies as COLING 2022 regarding preprints and double-submissions. The anonymity period for SDP 2022 is from June 13 to August 26, 2022.

Long paper submissions: up to 9 pages of content, plus unlimited references.

Short paper submissions: up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references.

Submission Website: Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system.

Final versions of accepted papers will be allowed 1 additional page of content so that reviewer comments can be taken into account.

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Important Dates

The dates are at this stage indicative only and can change. The current dates are up-to-date as of March 24, 2022.

Event Date
Paper Submission Deadline (extended) July 22, 2022 (23:59 UTC-12)
Notification of acceptance (extended) August 26, 2022 (23:59 UTC-12)
Camera-ready submissions due (extended) September 12, 2022 (23:59 UTC-12)
Workshop October 17, 2022

Keynote Speakers

We are excited to have several keynote speakers at SDP 2022. The following speakers have been confirmed (others will be announced later).

  • Min Yen-Kan, NUS, Singapore
  • Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, UK, who will discuss her recent work on uncertainty and negation, summarisation and citation graphs
  • Andrew Head, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Shared Tasks

SDP 2022 will host six exciting shared tasks. More information about all shared tasks is provided on the shared tasks page. Each shared task will follow-up with a separate CfP.

The shared task track includes the following tasks:

  1. Multi Perspective Scientific Document Summarization
  2. LongSumm 2022: Generating Long Summaries for Scientific Documents
  3. SV-Ident 2022: Survey Variable Identification in Social Science Publications
  4. MSLR 2022: Multi-document summarization for medical literature reviews
  5. Scholarly Knowledge Graph Generation
  6. DAGPap22: Detecting automatically generated scientific papers

More information about the tasks will be provided shortly on the shared tasks page.

Navigation

  • Introduction
  • Topics of Interest
  • Inclusivity
  • Submission Information
  • Important Dates
  • Keynote Speakers
  • Shared Tasks

Submission Portal

SDP @ COLING 2022 Submission

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline (extended) – July 22 (23:59 UTC-12)

Notification of acceptance (extended) – August 26 (23:59 UTC-12)

Camera-ready (extended) – September 12 (23:59 UTC-12)

Workshop – October 17

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