BIR 2022

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The Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval workshop series (BIR) at ECIR goes into its 12th iteration. In this workshop, held in conjunction with the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022), we will tackle issues related to academic search, at the intersection between Information Retrieval and Bibliometrics. We strive to get the ‘retrievalists’ and ‘citationists’ active in both academia and the industry together, who are developing search engines and recommender systems for scholarly search. An overview of the BIR/BIRNDL workshop series can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/home. A one-day workshop is to be held with ECIR 2022.

Like ECIR 2022, BIR 2022 is planned to be an in-person conference with support for remote attendance — see up-to-date information on the COVID situation on the ECIR travel information page.

Important Dates

All dates are in Anywhere on Earth – AoE Time Zone

• Submissions: 24 January 2022 01 February2022

• Notifications: 03 March 2022

• Camera Ready Contributions: 22 March 2022

• Workshop: 10 April 2022

Preliminary Program

All times are Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00, daylight saving time). Current time in Stavanger, Norway.
Note to presenters: Papers = 20 minutes + 10 minutes for questions

Papers will be published in proceedings later but preliminary versions are available.

Keynotes

• Keynote 1: Frédérique Bordignon (École des Ponts ParisTech, France): Pitfalls and promises of BIR in science studies: A case study of mapping scientific articles to SDGs

• Keynote 2: Mike Thelwall (University of Wolverhampton, UK): Can AI-estimated article quality be used to rank scholarly documents?

Accepted Papers

• Subhash Chandra Pujari, Fryderyk Mantiuk, Mark Giereth, Jannik Strötgen and Annemarie Friedrich. Evaluating Neural Multi-Field Document Representations for Patent Classification

• Houcemeddine Turki, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Mohamed Ali Hadj Taieb, Mohamed Ben Aouicha, Hanen Ben Hassen and Afif Masmoudi. MeSH2Matrix: Machine learning-driven biomedical relation classification based on the MeSH keywords of PubMed scholarly publications

• Swayatta Daw and Vikram Pudi. Long Tailed Entity Extraction of Model Names using Distant Supervision

• Francisco Bolaños. Mapping the Trending Topics of Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval

• Michael Färber, Christoph Braun, Nicholas Popovic, Tarek Saier and Kristian Noullet. Which Publications' Metadata Are in Which Bibliographic Databases? A System for Exploration

Workshop Topics

We welcome (but are not limited to) submissions regarding the aspects of academic search below:

• Information seeking & searching with scientific information, such as:

  • Finding relevant papers/authors for a literature review.

  • Measuring the degree of plagiarism in a paper.

  • Identifying expert reviewers for a given submission.

  • Flagging predatory conferences and journals.

  • Information seeking behaviour and human-computer interaction in academic search.

• Mining the scientific literature, such as:

  • Information extraction, text mining and parsing of scholarly literature.

  • Natural language processing (e.g., citation contexts).

  • Discourse modelling and argument mining.

• Academic search/recommender systems, such as:

  • Modelling the multifaceted nature of scientific information.

  • Building test collections for reproducible BIR.

  • System support for literature search and recommendation.

• Dataset development for bibliographic research

We especially invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work as well as contributions from industry. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome.

Submission Details

All submissions must be written in English following the CEURART 1-column paper style (6 to 12 pages, please see below) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program.

CEURART (incl. LaTeX and Word templates)

https://ceurws.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/ceurws-publishes-ceurart-paper-style/

Submit via EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bir2022

Page limits:

Full paper: 12 pages excluding references

Short paper: 6 pages excluding references

Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - this way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long term preservation).

Program Committee

• Karam Abdulahhad, DLR - German Aerospace Center, Germany

• Akiko Aizawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

• Sophia Althammer, TU Vienna, Austria

• Iana Atanassova, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France

• Joeran Beel, University of Siegen, Germany

• Patrice Bellot, Aix-Marseille Université - CNRS (LSIS), France

• Gerd Berget, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

• Marc Bertin, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France

• José Borbinha, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

• Katriina Byström, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

• Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

• Bela Gipp, University of Wuppertal, Germany

• Gilles Hubert, Université de Toulouse, France

• Najko Jahn, State and University Library Göttingen, Germany

• Kokil Jaidka, National University of Singapore, Singapore

• Roman Kern, Know-Center GmbH, Austria

• Rob Koopman, OCLC Research, The Netherlands

• Cyril Labbé, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France

• Birger Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark

• Haiming Liu, University of Bedfordshire, UK

• Florian Meier, Aalborg University, Denmark

• Norman Meuschke, University of Wuppertal, Germany

• Rajesh Piryani, South Asian University, India

• Philipp Schaer, TH Köln (University of Applied Sciences), Germany

• Ralf Schenkel, Trier University, Germany

• Jodi Schneider, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA

• Vivek Kumar Singh, Banaras Hindu University, India

• Lynda Tamine, IRIT, France

• Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton, UK

• George Tsatsaronis, Elsevier, the Netherlands

• Nees Jan Van Eck, Leiden University, Centre for Science and Technology Studies, NL

• Dietmar Wolfram, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

• Lucy Lu Wang, Allen Institute for AI, USA

Organisers

• Ingo Frommholz, University of Wolverhampton, UK

• Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany

• Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse, France

• Suzan Verberne, Leiden University, the Netherlands

Contact

For any enquiries please send an email to bir2022@easychair.org.