The deluge of scholarly publication poses a challenge for scholars to find relevant research and policy makers to seek in-depth information and understand research impact. Information retrieval (IR), natural language processing (NLP) and bibliometrics could enhance scholarly search, retrieval and user experience, but their use in digital libraries is not widespread. To address this gap, we organise the 4th Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL)3 and the 5th CL-SciSumm Shared Task4 co-located with the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019). Over the past several years and at premier conferences, BIRNDL [1-3], together with its parent workshops, has established itself as the primary interdisciplinary venue for cross-pollination of NLP, IR and DL research.
– Alex D. Wade, Ivana Williams: Personalized Feed/Query-formulation, Predictive Impact, and Ranking. – Bonnie Webber: Discourse Processing for Text Analysis: Recent successes, current challenges. – Guy Lev, Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, Jonathan Herzig, Achiya Jerbi, David Konopnicki: TalkSumm: A Dataset and Scalable Annotation Method for Scientific Paper Summarization Based on Conference Talks [4].
This paper will appear in Proceedings of ACL 2019 and is not included in this proceedings. 2.3
– Katarina Boland, Frank Krüger: Distant supervision for silver label generation of software mentions in social scientific publications – Na Pang, Li Qian, Weimin Lyu, Jin-Dong Yang: Transfer Learning for Scientific Data Chain Extraction in Small Chemical Corpus with joint BERT-CRF Model – Christin Katharina Kreutz, Premtim Sahitaj, Ralf Schenkel: Revaluating Semantometrics from Computer Science Publications – Suzan Verberne, Ioannis Chios, Jian Wang: Extracting and matching patent in-text references to scientific publications – Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, Stefano Mizzaro: HITS Hits Readersourcing: Validating Peer Review Alternatives Using Network Analysis
– Jason Portenoy, Jevin D. West: Supervised Learning for Automated Literature Review – Arlene J Casey, Bonnie Webber, Dorota Glowacka: Can Models of Author
Intention Support Quality Assessment of Content? – Andres Carvallo, Denis Parra: Comparing Word Embeddings for Document
Screening based on Active Learning – Philipp Scharpf, Moritz Schubotz, Howard S. Cohl, Bela Gipp: Towards Formula Concept Discovery and Recognition
– Barbara Plank, Reinard van Dalen: CiteTracked: A Longitudinal Dataset of
Peer Reviews and Citations – Chifumi Nishioka, Michael Färber: Evaluating the Availability of Open Citation Data – André Greiner-Petter, Terry Ruas, Moritz Schubotz, Akiko Aizawa, William
Grosky, Bela Gipp: Why Machines Cannot Learn Mathematics, Yet – Marc Bertin, Pierre Jonin, Frédéric Armetta, Iana Atanassova: Identifying the conceptual space of citation contexts using coreferences – Rajesh Piryani, Wolfgang Otto, Philipp Mayr, Vivek Kumar Singh: Analysing author name mentions in citation contexts of highly cited publications 2.4
We will continue to organize the BIRNDL and BIR workshops at high profile IR, DL, Scientometric, NLP and CL venues. The combination of research paper presentations, and a shared task like CL-SciSumm with system evaluation has proven to be a successful and agile format. So we will continue with this format.
In line with the BIRNDL 2019 workshop, we invite workshop authors and others to submit extended paper to two independent open calls of special issues.
Further reading: A special issue on “Bibliometrics, Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing in Digital Libraries” appeared in 2018 in the International Journal on Digital Libraries, see an overview in [5]. This was a large issue with 13 papers with papers from BIRNDL 2016 as well as new submissions. So, we followed up with another special issue on “Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Scientometrics” appeared in Scientometrics journal with extended papers from later editions BIR and BIRNDL and new submissions. Please see an overview in [6].
Since 2016 we maintain the “Bibliometric-enhanced-IR Bibliography” 7 that collects scientific papers which appear in collaboration with the BIR/BIRNDL organizers. We invite interested researchers to join this project and contribute related publications.
We would like to thank SRI International for their generous funding of CLSciSumm ’19 and BIRNDL ’19. CZI sponsored Alex Wade’s keynote while SRI International sponsored Bonnie Webber. We immensely thank Prof. Dragomir Radev and Michihiro Yasunaga from Yale University for sharing the SciSummNet dataset for CL-SciSumm 2019 and co-organising this time. The work by Philipp Mayr was partly funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under grant number MA 3964/10-1, the “Establishing Contextual Dataset Retrieval - transferring concepts from document to dataset retrieval (ConDATA)” project.
We are also grateful to the co-organizers of the past BIRNDL workshops Guillaume Cabanac, Ingo Frommholz, Kokil Jaidka and Dietmar Wolfram, for their continued support and involvement. 5 http://lcs2.iiitd.edu.in/speIssue_Exsy.html 6 https://sites.google.com/view/scientometrics-si2019-bir 7 https://github.com/PhilippMayr/Bibliometric-enhanced-IR_Bibliography/ 2. Mayr, P., Chandrasekaran, M.K., Jaidka, K.: Report on the Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL 2017). SIGIR Forum 51(2) (2017) 107–113 3. Cabanac, G., Chandrasekaran, M.K., Frommholz, I., Jaidka, K., Kan, M.Y., Mayr, P., Wolfram, D.: Report on the Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL 2016). SIGIR Forum 50(2) (2016) 36–43 4. Lev, G., Shmueli-Scheuer, M., Herzig, J., Jerbi, A., Konopnicki, D.: TalkSumm: A Dataset and Scalable Annotation Method for Scientific Paper Summarization Based on Conference Talks. In: arXiv:1906.01351 5. Mayr, P., Frommholz, I., Cabanac, G., Chandrasekaran, M.K., Jaidka, K., Kan, M.Y., Wolfram, D.: Introduction to the Special Issue on Bibliometric-Enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL). International Journal on Digital Libraries 19(2-3) (2018) 107–111 6. Cabanac, G., Frommholz, I., Mayr, P.: Bibliometric-enhanced information retrieval: preface. Scientometrics 116(2) (2018) 1225–1227