Detailed call for papers:
We seek to appeal to the mainstream NLP and ML community working on SDP tasks – which are NLP tasks – to publish at SDP as we seek to establish SDP as the integrated premier venue. We have established a steering committee <https://ornlcda.github.io/SDProc/steeringcommittee.html> to help us turn SDP into a conference in the forthcoming years.
** Topics of Interest **
CL-SciSumm is the first medium-scale shared task on scientific document summarization, with over 500 annotated documents. Last year's CL-SciSumm shared task introduced large scale training datasets, both annotated from ScisummNet and auto-annotated. For the task, Systems were provided with a Reference Paper (RP) and 10 or more Citing Papers (CPs) that all contain citations to the RP, which they used to summarise RP. This was evaluated against abstract and human written summaries on ROUGE.
The task is defined as follows:Given: A topic consisting of a Reference Paper (RP) and Citing Papers (CPs) that all contain citations to the RP. In each CP, the text spans (i.e., citances) have been identified that pertain to a particular citation to the RP.Task 1A: For each citance, identify the spans of text (cited text spans) in the RP that most accurately reflect the citance. These are of the granularity of a sentence fragment, a full sentence, or several consecutive sentences (no more than 5).Task 1B: For each cited text span, identify what facet of the paper it belongs to, from a predefined set of facets.Task 2 (optional bonus task): Finally, generate a structured summary of the RP from the cited text spans of the RP. The length of the summary should not exceed 250 words.
Given: A full-text paper, its abstract, and a lay summary of a given paper
Task: For each paper, generate a lay summary of the specified length
** LongSumm 2020: Shared Task on Generating Long Summaries for Scientific Documents **
** Submission Information **
** Important Dates **
Research track:
Submission deadline – August15, 2020
Notification of Acceptance – September 29, 2020
Camera-ready submission due – October 10, 2020
Workshop – November 19, 2020
Shared task track:
Training set release – Feb 15, 2020
Deadline for registration – April 30, 2020 (remains open till evaluation window starts)
Test set release (Blind) – July 1, 2020
System runs due – August 1, 2020
Preliminary system reports due – August 15, 2020
Camera-ready submission due – September 29, 2020
Workshop – November 19, 2020
** SDP 2020 Keynote Speakers **
SDP keynotes are invited by the organizing committee and will present in the research track of the workshop.
Kuansan Wang, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Outreach Academic Services
Steinn Sigurdsson, Scientific Director of arXiv and Professor at the Pennsylvania State University
** SDP 2020 Journal Extension **
In the past, the accepted authors were invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of a selected journal. The organizers are currently in the process of identifying appropriate journals to host a similar special issue this year. Relevant updates including topics and requirements for this special issue will be shared on the workshop website in due time.
** Organizing Committee **
** Steering Committee **
With kind regards,