BIR 2020 Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval




                                    BIR and BIRNDL:
                       A marathon towards a congregation of scientific
                             document processing community?

                                                   Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran

                                                              Amazon, USA
                                                         cmkumar087@gmail.com




                          I congratulate Philipp, Ingo and Guillaume on the 10th anniversary Biblio-
                      metric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR). BIR has been a long standing
                      workshop at ECIR engaging the active digital library and academic search com-
                      munity in Europe and beyond on IR problems. Perhaps it is not a stretch to say
                      that BIR has become a preferred venue to publish and engage in active discus-
                      sions on emerging topics in and around academic search. I am happy to have
                      served as a program committee for BIR over the past few editions.
                          We have been organising the joint conference on Bibliometric enhanced IR
                      and NLP for DL (BIRNDL) at SIGIR and other venues since 2016 with Philipp
                      Mayr. The inaugural edition of this joint conference was co-located with JCDL
                      2016, Newark, USA, which saw BIR 2016 organise jointly with us as BIRNDL
                      2016.1 Uniquely, BIRNDL also features the CL-SciSumm summarization shared
                      task, sponsored by Microsoft Research Asia from 2016 through 2018. Since then
                      BIRNDL has become an annual event at SIGIR, with a research track and the
                      CL-SciSumm shared task track. While BIR has a search and IR focus, BIRNDL
                      addresses problems and communities in both IR and NLP.
                          In continuance of the grand vision to unify the community working on schol-
                      arly documents under one umbrella, in 2020, we have expanded even further. We
                      are organising the first workshop on Scholarly Document Processing,2 (SDP), on
                      November 12, co-located with EMNLP 2020, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
                      SDP has a research track and three summarization shared tasks on scientific
                      documents: CL-SciSumm, Lay Summarization (LaySumm) sponsored by Else-
                      vier Labs and Long Summarization (LongSumm) run by IBM Research Lab,
                      Haifa. We have published our call for papers and opened registrations for the
                      shared task.3
                          We wish the 10th BIR a grand success, be it online or offline!



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                        A companion video is hosted at https://youtu.be/V1zxs_3b_CI.
                      1
                        http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1610/
                      2
                        https://ornlcda.github.io/SDProc/
                      3
                        https://ornlcda.github.io/SDProc/cfp.html




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