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Subject: [WI] [CfP] Sci-K @ The Web Conference 2022 – 2nd International
Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Representation, Discovery, and Assessment
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 15:45:22 +0100
From: Angelo Salatino <aas88ie(a)gmail.com>
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Sci-K – 2nd International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge
Representation, Discovery, and Assessment in conjunction with The Web
Conference (WWW) 2022
April 25-29, 2022, Lyon, France (held virtually)
web: https://sci-k.github.io <https://sci-k.github.io>, twitter:
@scik_workshop
Submissions deadline: February 3rd, 2022
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Aim and Scope:
In the last decades, we have experienced a substantial increase in the
volume of published scientific articles and related research objects
(e.g., data sets, software packages); a trend that is expected to
continue. This opens up fundamental challenges including generating
large-scale machine-readable representations of scientific knowledge,
making scholarly data discoverable and accessible, and designing
reliable and comprehensive metrics to assess scientific impact. The main
objective of Sci-K is to provide a forum for researchers and
practitioners from different disciplines to present, educate from, and
guide research related to scientific knowledge. Specifically, we foresee
three main themes that cover the most important challenges in the field:
representation, discoverability, and assessment.
Representation. There is an urge for flexible, context-sensitive,
fine-grained, and machine-actionable representations of scholarly
knowledge that at the same time are structured, interlinked, and
semantically rich: Scientific Knowledge Graphs (SKGs). These resources
can power several data-driven services for navigating, analysing, and
making sense of research dynamics. Current challenges are related to the
design of ontologies able to conceptualise scholarly knowledge, model
its representation, and enable its exchange across different SKGs.
Discoverability. It is important that scholarly information is easily
findable, discoverable, and visible, so that it can be mined and
organised within SKGs. Hence, we need discovery tools able to crawl the
Web and identify scholarly data, whether on a publisher’s website or
elsewhere – institutional repositories, preprint servers, open-access
repositories, and others. This is a particularly challenging endeavour
as it requires a deep understanding of both the scholarly communication
landscape and the needs of a variety of stakeholders: researchers,
publishers, funders, and the general public. Other challenges are
related to the discovery and extraction of entities and concepts,
integration of information from heterogeneous sources, identification of
duplicates, finding connections between entities, and identifying
conceptual inconsistencies.
Assessment. Due to the continuous growth in the volume of research
output, rigorous approaches for the assessment of research impact are
now more valuable than ever. In this context, we urge reliable and
comprehensive metrics and indicators of the scientific impact and merit
of publications, datasets, research institutions, individual
researchers, and other relevant entities.
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Topics of Interest:
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Representation
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Data models for the description of scholarly data and their
relationships.
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Description and use of provenance information of scientific data.
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Integration and interoperability models of different data sources.
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Discoverability
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Methods for extracting metadata, entities and relationships from
scientific data.
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Methods for the (semi-)automatic annotation and enhancement of
scientific data.
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Methods and interfaces for the exploration, retrieval, and
visualisation of scholarly data.
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Assessment
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Novel methods, indicators, and metrics for quality and impact
assessment of scientific publications, datasets, software, and
other relevant entities based on scholarly data.
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Uses of scientific knowledge graphs and citation networks for
the facilitation of research assessment.
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Studies regarding the characteristics or the evolution of
scientific impact or merit.
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Submission Guidelines:
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Full research papers (up to 8 pages for main content)
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Short research papers (up to 4 pages for main content)
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Vision/Position papers (up to 4 pages for main content)
The workshop calls for full research papers (up to 8 pages + 2 pages of
appendices + 2 pages of references), describing original work on the
listed topics, and short papers (up to 4 pages + 2 pages of appendices +
2 pages of references), on early research results, new results on
previously published works, demos, and projects. In accordance with Open
Science principles, research papers may also be in the form of data
papers and software papers (short or long papers). The former present
the motivation and methodology behind the creation of data sets that are
of value to the community; e.g., annotated corpora, benchmark
collections, training sets. The latter presents software functionality,
its value for the community, and its application to a non-specialist
reader. To enable reproducibility and peer-review, authors will be
requested to share the DOIs of the data sets and the software products
described in the articles and thoroughly describe their construction and
reuse.
The workshop will also call for vision/position papers (up to 4 pages +
2 pages of appendices + 2 pages of references) providing insights
towards new or emerging areas, innovative or risky approaches, or
emerging applications that will require extensions to the state of the
art. These do not have to include results already, but should carefully
elaborate about the motivation and the ongoing challenges of the
described area.
Submissions for review must be in PDF format and must adhere to the ACM
template and format. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines, or
do not view or print properly, may be rejected without review.
The proceedings of the workshops will be published jointly with The Web
Conference 2022 proceedings.
Submit your contributions following the link:
https://sci-k.github.io/2022/#submission
<https://sci-k.github.io/2022/#submission>
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Important Dates:
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Paper submission: February 1st, 2022 (23:59, AoE timezone)
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Notification of acceptance: March 1st, 2022
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Camera-ready due: March 10th, 2022
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Workshop day: April 25th or 26th, 2022
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Organizing Committee (alphabetical order):
Paolo Manghi, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Andrea Mannocci, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Francesco Osborne, The Open University, UK
Dimitris Sacharidis, Université Libre De Bruxelles, Belgium
Angelo Salatino, The Open University, UK
Thanasis Vergoulis, “Athena” RC, Greece
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