Accelerating scientific discovery, informing policy, and educating the public through machine understanding of scientific knowledge
The workshop will be held online, in conjunction with the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, on November 19, 2020
The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020).
The workshop will host the 6th CL-SciSumm Shared Task and two new summarization tasks geared towards easier access to scientific text.
Topics of interest, formatting and submission instructions, and important dates.
See our Introduction and Shared Tasks overview slides!
See our Keynote Presentations by Kuansan Wang and Steinn Sigurdsson!
Join us live on our virtual platform at 8:45 AM EST on November 19th!
Nov 16: Browse our workshop papers, slides, and pre-recorded videos at the EMNLP 2020 Virtual Infrastructure! Check our Program Schedule
Nov 09: Our Proceedings are online at ACL Anthology!
Exciting Keynote Talks at SDP 2020!
In addition to the long-standing challenge faced by scholars of keeping up with the growing literature in their own and related fields, they must now compete with malign pseudo-science and disinformation in informing public policy and behavior. This has stimulated workshops and research focused on enhancing search, retrieval, summarization, and analysis of scholarly documents. However, the general research community on scholarly document processing remains fragmented, and efforts towards natural language understanding of scholarly text that is central to vastly improve all the said downstream applications are not widespread.
To address these gaps, we, organizers of BIRNDL and WOSP workshops, propose the 1st Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing. We seek to reach to the broader NLP and AI/ML community to pool the distributed efforts to improve scholarly document understanding and enable intelligent access to the published research. SDP will comprise a research track and the 6th CL-SciSumm Shared Task with new tasks geared towards easier access to scientific methods and results.
The 1st Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing will be collocated with the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020). The workshop will be held as a full-day event on November 19, 2020 (after the main conference).
| Submission deadline | August 15, 2020 | |
| Retraction of workshop papers accepted to EMNLP main conference | September 15, 2020 | |
| Notification of paper acceptance | September 29, 2020 | |
| Camera-ready submission of accepted papers | October 10, 2020 | |
| Workshop | November 19, 2020 |
All submission deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE (Anywhere on Earth) Time Zone (UTC-12).