WOSP 2015 - 4th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications

June 24/25, 2015 ? Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Workshop page: http://project.core.ac.uk/jcdl2015/
Conference page: http://www.jcdl2015.org
1. INTRODUCTION
Digital libraries that store scientific publications are becoming increasingly
central to the research process. They are not only used for traditional tasks,
such as finding and storing research outputs, but also as a source for
discovering new research trends or evaluating research excellence. With
the current growth of scientific publications deposited in digital libraries,
it is no longer sufficient to provide only access to content. To aid research,
it is especially important to leverage the potential of text and data mining
technologies to improve the process of how research is being done.
This workshop aims to bring together people from different backgrounds who:
(a) are interested in analysing and mining databases of scientific publications,
(b) develop systems that enable such analysis and mining of scientific databases
(especially those who run databases of publications) 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, crowdsourcing or other methods.
3. Analysis of large databases of scientific publications to identify research
trends, high impact, cross-fertilisation between disciplines, research
excellence etc.
Topics of interest relevant to theme 1 include but are not limited to:
- Infrastructures including repositories, aggregators, text-and data-mining
facilities, impact monitoring tools, datasets, services and APIs for accessing
scientific publications and/or research data.
Topics of interest relevant to theme 2 include but are not limited to:
- Novel information extraction and text-mining approaches to semantic enrichment
of publications.
- Automatic categorization and clustering of scientific publications.
- New methods and models for connecting and interlinking scientific
publications.
- Models for semantically representing and annotating publications.
- Semantically enriching/annotating publications by crowdsourcing.
Topics of interest relevant to theme 3 include but are not limited to:
- New methods, models and innovative approaches for measuring impact of
publications.
- New methods for measuring performance of researchers.
- Evaluating impact of research groups.
- Methods for identifying research trends and cross-fertilization between
research disciplines.
- Application and case studies of mining from scientific databases and
publications.
- Improving the infrastructure of repositories to support the development and
integration of new impact and performance metrics.
3. SPECIAL OPEN PUBLICATIONS DATASET TRACK
We would like to invite the workshop participants to make use of the CORE
publications dataset containing large volume of research publications from
a wide variety of research areas. It is not mandatory to use the dataset,
the aim of the special track is to provide a framework for developing and
testing methods and tools addressing the workshop topics. The dataset contains
not only full-texts, but also an enriched version of publications' metadata.
The dataset is available through the CORE portal:
http://core.ac.uk/intro/data_dumps
4. EXPECTED AUDIENCE
The workshop on Mining Scientific Publications aims to bring together
researchers, digital library developers and practitioners from government and
industry to address the current challenges in the domain of mining scientific
publications.
5. 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 ACM 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.
Papers should be submitted using the EasyChair system provided here:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wosp2015
Successful submissions will be published in the D-Lib Magazine
(http://www.dlib.org).
6. IMPORTANT DATES
May 3, 2015 - Submission deadline
May 24, 2015 - Notification of acceptance
June 17, 2015 - Camera-ready
June 24/25, 2015 - Workshop
The dates are at this stage indicative only and can change.
7. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
TBD
8. ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Petr Knoth, Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, UK
Kris Jack, Mendeley Ltd., United Kingdom
Lucas Anastasiou, Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, UK
Nuno Freire, The European Library, The Netherlands
Nancy Pontika, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
Drahomira Herrmannova, Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, UK
9. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
TBD
More details available on the workshop website:
http://project.core.ac.uk/jcdl2015/