<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:&#39;trebuchet ms&#39;,sans-serif">*apologies for cross-posting*</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:&#39;trebuchet ms&#39;,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:&#39;trebuchet ms&#39;,sans-serif"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-e8266563-18ac-43a6-78d4-651b7e5563c2" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">=== JCDL 2016: 5th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications (WOSP 2016) | Call for Papers ===</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">June 22-23, 2016 – Newark, NJ, USA</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop page: <a href="http://wosp.core.ac.uk/jcdl2016/">http://wosp.core.ac.uk/jcdl2016/</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Conference page: <a href="http://www.jcdl2016.org">http://www.jcdl2016.org</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/wospworkshop">https://twitter.com/wospworkshop</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">1. INTRODUCTION</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">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.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">This workshop aims to bring together people from different backgrounds who:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">(a) are interested in analysing and mining databases of scientific publications</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">(b) develop systems that enable such analysis and mining of scientific databases (especially those who run databases of publications)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">(c) who develop novel technologies that improve the way research is being done.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">2. TOPICS</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">The topics of the workshop will be organised around the following themes:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">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.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">2. Semantic enrichment of scientific publications by means of text and data mining, crowdsourcing or other methods.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">3. Analysis of large databases of scientific publications to identify research trends, high impact, cross-fertilisation between disciplines, research excellence etc.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Topics of interest relevant to theme 1 include but are not limited to:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">- Infrastructures including repositories, aggregators, text-and data-mining facilities, impact monitoring tools, datasets, services and APIs for accessing scientific publications and/or research data.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Topics of interest relevant to theme 2 include but are not limited to:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">- Novel information extraction and text-mining approaches to semantic enrichment of publications.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">- Automatic categorization and clustering of scientific publications.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">- New methods and models for connecting and interlinking scientific publications.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">- Models for semantically representing and annotating publications.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">- Semantically enriching/annotating publications by crowdsourcing.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Topics of interest relevant to theme 3 include but are not limited to:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">- New methods, models and innovative approaches for measuring impact of publications.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">- New methods for measuring performance of researchers.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">- Evaluating impact of research groups.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">- Methods for identifying research trends and cross-fertilization between research disciplines.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">- Application and case studies of mining from scientific databases and publications.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">- Improving the infrastructure of repositories to support the development and integration of new impact and performance metrics.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">3. SPECIAL OPEN PUBLICATIONS DATASET TRACK</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">We would like to invite the workshop participants to makes use of the CORE publications dataset containing large volume of research publications from a wide variety of research areas. The dataset contains not only full-texts, but also an enriched version of publications&#39; 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.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">The dataset is available through the CORE portal:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://core.ac.uk/intro/data_dumps">http://core.ac.uk/intro/data_dumps</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">4. EXPECTED AUDIENCE</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">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.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">5. SUBMISSION FORMAT</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">We invite submissions related to the workshop&#39;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. All submissions will be uploaded to EasyChair for a peer-review.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Papers should be submitted using the EasyChair system provided here:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wosp2016">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wosp2016</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Successful submissions will be published in the D-Lib Magazine (<a href="http://www.dlib.org">http://www.dlib.org</a>).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">6. IMPORTANT DATES</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">April 17 -- Submission deadline</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">May 15 -- Notification of acceptance</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">June 15 -- Camera ready</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">June 22-23 -- Workshop</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">The dates are at this stage indicative only and can change.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">7.  KEYNOTE SPEAKERS</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">TBD</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">8. ORGANISING COMMITTEE</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Petr Knoth, Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, UK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Drahomira Herrmannova, Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, UK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Lucas Anastasiou, Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, UK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Nancy Pontika, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">9. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Pável Calado, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Bradford Demarest, Indiana University Bloomington, USA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Iryna Gurevych, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Antoine Isaac, Europeana &amp; VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Roman Kern, Graz University of Technology, Austria</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Martin Klein, University of California Los Angeles, USA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Paolo Manghi, ISTI-CNR, Italy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Bruno Martins, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Franco Maria Nardini, ISTI-CNR, Italy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Francesco Osborne, KMi, The Open University, UK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Eloy Rodrigues, Universidade do Minho, Portugal</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Angelo Antonio Salatino, KMi, The Open University, UK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Pavel Smrz, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Wojtek Sylwestrzak, ICM Univeristy of Warsaw, Poland</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Vetle Torvik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Saeed Ul Hassan, Information Technology University, Pakistan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Ziqi Zhang, University of Sheffield, UK</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">More details available on the workshop website:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://wosp.core.ac.uk/jcdl2016/">https://wosp.core.ac.uk/jcdl2016/</a></span></p><br></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px">-- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England &amp; Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). The Open University is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.</span><br></div></div>