Emc^Sci

Emc-Sci : 1st workshop on Extracting and Modelling Scientific Knowledge from Texts.

https://sites.google.com/view/emcsci/english

July 3rd 2017, Caen, France

Co-located with IC 2017 (https://pfia2017.greyc.fr/ic/presentation)

The objective of this workshop is to put together researchers that are interested in various aspects of the process of extracting knowledge from scientific text, in particular but not limited to: expert and community finding based on social networks, discovering research trends, methods for the extraction of key phrases and relations, automatic construction or expansion of ontologies dedicated to the analysis of scholar data.

Topics of Interest:

• Keyphrase and/or relation extraction from scientific texts;
• Semantic similarity between scientific concepts;
• Identification of experts;
• Semantic Information Retrieval;
• Citation analysis and prediction;
• Ontologies for the description of scientific domains;
• Enrichment of Ontologies with scientific concepts and relations;
• Automatic summarization;
• Making sense of research dynamics (evolution of concepts, communities, identification of “forgotten domains” or emerging research fields).

Important Dates

• Paper submission : 11 May 2017
• Author notifications : 29 May 2017
• Workshop between 3 and 4 July 2017

Submissions

We will be accepting submissions online via easychair:

• https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emcsci2017

Submissions may be in French or in English language. We accept two types of submissions: regular papers and extended abstracts:

Regular papers

Regular paper submissions must describe original ongoing or complete works, possibly with an evaluation and an analysis of the results. Regular papers consist up to 6 (six) pages of content with an additional page for the references.

Extended abstracts

Extended abstracts must describe a Ph.D. thesis subject, or works at an early stage of development. Position papers are also accepted. Extended abstracts consist up to 2 (two) pages of content with an additional page for the references.

All papers , regular or extended abstracts, will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. The review process will be double blind.

Formatting requirements

The papers will be formatted using the IC 2017 LaTeX templates available here: https://pfia2017.greyc.fr/_media/ic/style-latex-ic.zip

People

Chairs:

• Davide Buscaldi, LIPN, Université Paris 13 (France)
• Valentina Presutti, ISTC, CNR (Italy)

Contact: davide.buscaldi {at} lipn.univ-paris13.fr