SCOLIA 2027
The Third International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access
The Third International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access
The SCOLIA (SChOLarly Information Access) workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Scientometrics/Bibliometrics who are working on the analysis of scientific/scholarly documents. The SCOLIA workshop at ECIR is a full-day workshop, including presentations of shared tasks. We are calling for papers – information about topics, dealdlines and submission below.
SCOLIA 2027, the Third International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access, will take place at ECIR 2027 in Southampton, UK. The aim of the SCOLIA (SChOLarly Information Access) workshop, following the successful BIR workshop series and SCOLIA 2025 & 2026, is to bring together researchers and practitioners from Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Scientometrics/Bibliometrics who are working on the analysis of scientific/scholarly documents. The workshop has a broader scope than the previous BIR workshop series. Bibliometrics and Scientometrics are concerned with all quantitative aspects of information and academic literature, which naturally make them interesting for IR research, in particular when it comes to academic search, recommendation, and other domains in which citations play a central role, for example, legal and patent retrieval.
As a successor of the Bibliometric-enhanced IR (BIR) workshop series at ECIR the SCOLIA workshop recognises the growing importance of fields such as generative AI and NLP for both the Scientometrics and the IR communities. While maintaining the original focus on intersecting the fields of IR with Scientometrics/Bibliometrics, we open the discussion to invite works utilising advanced NLP and AI technologies for academic information access.
Academic Information Access • Information Retrieval • Recommendation • Conversational Interfaces • Digital Libraries • Bibliometrics • Scientometrics • Natural Language Processing
All dates are in midnight Anywhere on Earth – AoE Time Zone
Extended Abstract Submissions: 10 Januar 2027
Full Paper Submission: 17 January 2027
Notifications: 7 February 2027
Camera Ready Contributions: 7 March 2027
Workshop: full day between March 21-25 (during ECIR 2027, please also follow announcements there)
All submissions must be written in English following the CEURART 1-column paper style (6 pages (short paper), 12 pages (full paper), please see below) and should be submitted as single-blind PDF files to EasyChair.
In addition to regular research papers we encourage the submission of shared task proposals (4 pages). Shared tasks are to be presented at SCOLIA 2027 and carried out so that participants’ results can be presented at SCOLIA 2028 in a dedicated session. Proposals should contain a brief discussion the tasks to be carried out highlighting their connection to SCOLIA’s goals, artefacts expected to be submitted by participants, the evaluation setup including datasets and measures, a preliminary timeline as well as details on organisers.
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: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip, Overleaf template of CEURART: Template for submissions to CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) - Overleaf, Online LaTeX Editor
Submission via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scolia2027
Page limits:
Full paper: 12 pages excluding references
Short paper: 6 pages excluding references
Shared task proposal: 4 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).
SCOLIA addresses current research issues regarding the broad scope of scholarly information access in the age of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and GenAI. Submissions should discuss, but are not limited to, the following topics
Construction of scholarly information access systems for tasks such as search, recommendation, or conversational information access, e.g.,
Chatting with papers via chatbots
Bibliometrics & Scientometrics and IR
Finding relevant papers/authors for a literature review
Identifying expert reviewers for a given submission
Information extraction, text mining and parsing of scholarly literature
Recommendation of citations based on the context
Discourse modelling and argument mining
Retrieval-augmented Generation for LLM-enhanced academic search and recommendation
Challenges and opportunities for scholarly information access coming from GenAI and LLMs.
Evaluation of scholarly information access systems, e.g.,
Quantification of the suitability of the output produced by an LLM
Evaluation challenges of generative AI and LLMs for scholarly texts and references
Simulated users.
User Models and Collections, e.g.,
Understanding information-seeking behaviour and HCI in academic search
Modelling the multifaceted nature of scientific information interaction
Building test collections.
Pre- and Post-Publication Quality Insurance and Scientific Integrity, e.g.,
Filtering high-quality research papers, e.g., in preprint servers
Tracking and taming error propagation in the scientific record or scientific misbehaviour
Detecting "Fake Science", low quality or automatically generated papers
Measuring the degree of plagiarism in a paper
Flagging predatory conferences and journals.
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.
UP2DATE @ SCOLIA is a shared task focusing on the development of new methods to assist in updating systematic reviews.
Ingo Frommholz, MODUL University Vienna, Austria
Christin Kreutz, TH Mittelhessen - University of Applied Sciences & Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Germany
Harrisen Scells, University of Tübingen, Germany
Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany
Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse & Institut Universitaire de France, France
Photo: Ingo Frommholz