2nd Workshop on
Natural Language Processing for Business Process Management (NLP4BPM)


@ the International Conference on
Business Process Management (BPM), 
in Utrecht, The Netherlands, Sept. 11-15, 2023

Workshop Schedule

All sessions will take place in the Linteloozaal of Stadskasteel Oudaen (Oudegracht 99).

9.00-10.30 Paper Session 1:

Text-Aware Predictive Process Monitoring of Knowledge-Intensive Processes: Does Control Flow Matter? (pdf)
Katharina Brennig, Kay Benkert, Bernd Löhr, and Oliver Müller

Collecting Activities and States in German Business Process Models  (pdf)
Ralf Laue, Kristin Kutzner, and Martin Läuter

Towards a Machine Learning-Based Approach for Recommending Next Elements in BPMN Models  (short paper) (pdf)
Viktoria Farkas


11:15-12:45 Paper Session 2:

Large Language Models can accomplish Business Process Management Tasks  (pdf)
Michael Grohs, Luka Abb, Nourhan Elsayed, and Jana-Rebecca Rehse

Abstractions, Scenarios, and Prompt Definitions for Process Mining with LLMs: A Case Study (pdf)
Alessandro Berti, Daniel Schuster, and Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Chit-Chat or Deep Talk: Prompt Engineering for Process Mining (short paper) (pdf)
Urszula Jessen, Michal Sroka, and Dirk Fahland


13.45-15.15 Roundtable:

Topic: The Impact of Large Language Models on Business Process Management
Participation is open to all who are interested



Goals & Topics

The NLP4BPM workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present, discuss, and evaluate how natural language processing (NLP) can be used to establish new or improve existing methods, techniques, tools, and process-aware systems that support the different phases of the BPM life-cycle.

In this context, natural language can play a variety of roles. Among others, it can be used to describe processes in a comprehensible manner, define the meaning of events and activities, and it can provide support for the conduct of process analyses themselves, e.g., as an  interface for process mining or modeling.

In the workshop, we welcome any contribution that considers textual content or meaning for any BPM task, this includes, but is not limited to:

Types of Contributions

We are open to receive several types of paper submissions to our workshop:

Interactive Session

This year edition will include a plenary discussion in which all participants will be encouraged to jointly talk about a variety of questions and statements on how to further advance the research area. Eventually, we might use the insights from this session to establish a manifesto afterwards.

Submission Instructions

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers. Papers must be written in English and strictly following the Springer LNBIP style. Indicated page limits apply to the total length of the manuscript, including references.
Submitted papers will be evaluated according to their rigor, significance, originality, technical quality and exposition, by at least three distinct members of an international program committee. All submissions must be done via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bpm2023

The workshop papers will be published by Springer as a post-workshop proceedings volume in the series Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP). At least one author of each accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedures of the main BPM’23 conference to be found at its website: https://bpm2023.sites.uu.nl/.

Important Dates

All deadlines are set to 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE), GMT+12.

Workshop Organizers

Program Committee

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