You are invited to submit to the 8th international workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2019), to be held as part of the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019).
<http://www.gesis.org/en/services/events/events-archive/conferences/ecir-workshops/ecir-workshop-2019/>
=== Important Dates ===
- Submissions: 27 January 2019
- Notifications: 2 March 2019
- Camera Ready Contributions: 2 April 2019
- Workshop: 14 April 2019 in Cologne, Germany
=== tl;dr ===
The Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR) workshop series at ECIR tackles issues related to academic search, at the crossroads between Information Retrieval and Bibliometrics. BIR is a hot topic investigated by both academia (e.g., ArnetMiner, CiteSeerX, DocEar) and the industry (e.g., Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, Semantic Scholar). A one-day workshop is to be held at ECIR 2019 in Cologne, Germany.
Past BIR proceedings are online https://dblp.org/search?q=BIR.ECIR as open access.
=== Keywords ===
Academic Search, Information Retrieval, Digital Libraries, Bibliometrics, Scientometrics
=== Workshop Topics ===
We welcome submissions regarding all three aspects of the search/recommendation process:
- User needs and behaviour regarding 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.
- The characteristics of scientific information, such as:
. Measuring the reliability of bibliographic libraries.
. Spotting research trends and research fronts.
- Academic search/recommendation systems, such as:
. Modelling the multifaceted nature of scientific information.
. Building test collections for reproducible BIR.
. System support for literature search and recommendation.
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.
=== Aim of the Workshop ===
Searching for scientific information is a long-lived information need. In the early 1960s, Salton (1963) was already striving to enhance information retrieval by including clues inferred from bibliographic citations. The development of citation indexes pioneered by Garfield (1955) proved determinant for such a research endeavour at the crossroads between the nascent fields of Information Retrieval (IR) and Bibliometrics [Bibliometrics refers to the statistical analysis of the academic literature (Pritchard, 1969) and plays a key role in scientometrics: the quantitative analysis of science and innovation (Leydesdorff & Milojevic, 2015)]. The pioneers who established these fields in Information Science---such as Salton and Garfield---were followed by scientists who specialised in one of these (White & McCain, 1998), leading to the two loosely connected fields we know of today.
The purpose of the BIR workshop series founded in 2014 is to tighten up the link between IR and Bibliometrics. We strive to get the ‘retrievalists’ and ‘citationists’ (White & McCain, 1998) active in both academia and the industry together, who are developing search engines and recommender systems such as ArnetMiner, CiteSeerX, DocEar, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, and Semantic Scholar, just to name a few.
These bibliometric-enhanced IR systems must deal with the multifaceted nature of scientific information by searching for or recommending academic papers, patents, venues (i.e., conferences or journals), authors, experts (e.g., peer reviewers), references (to be cited to support an argument), and datasets. The underlying models harness relevance signals from keywords provided by authors, topics extracted from the full-texts, coauthorship networks, citation networks, and various classifications schemes of science.
Bibliometric-enhanced IR is a hot topic whose recent developments made the news---see for instance the Initiative for Open Citations (Shotton, 2018) and the Google Dataset Search (Castelvecchi, 2018) launched on September 4, 2018. We believe that BIR@ECIR is a much needed scientific event for the ‘retrievalists’ and ‘citationists’ to meet and join forces pushing the knowledge boundaries of IR applied to literature search and recommendation.
Castelvecchi, D.: Google unveils search engine for open data [News & Comment]. Nature (2018). doi:10.1038/d41586-018-06201-x
Garfield, E.: Citation indexes for science: A new dimension in documentation through association of ideas. Science 122(3159), 108–111 (1955). doi:10.1126/science.122.3159.108
Leydesdorff, L., Milojević, S.: Scientometrics. In: Wright, J.D. (ed.) International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, vol. 21, pp. 322–327. Elsevier, 2nd edn. (2015). doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.85030-8
Pritchard, A.: Statistical bibliography or bibliometrics? [Documentation notes]. Journal of Documentation 25(4), 348–349 (1969). doi:10.1108/eb026482
Salton, G.: Associative document retrieval techniques using bibliographic information. Journal of the ACM 10(4), 440–457 (1963). doi:10.1145/321186.321188
Shotton, D.: Funders should mandate open citations. Nature 553(7687), 129 (2018). doi:10.1038/d41586-018-00104-7
White, H.D., McCain, K.W.: Visualizing a discipline: An author co-citation analysis of Information Science, 1972–1995. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 49(4), 327–355 (1998). doi:b57vc7
=== Submission Details ===
All submissions must be written in English following Springer LNCS author guidelines (6 to 12 pages) 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.
Springer LNCS: <http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines>
EasyChair: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bir-at-ecir2019>
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). A special issue of the Scientometrics journal (http://link.springer.com/journal/11192) will include extended versions of the best papers presented at the workshop.
=== Program Committee ===
Iana Atanassova, CRIT, Université de Franche-Comté, France
Patrice Bellot, Aix-Marseille Université - CNRS (LSIS), France
Marc Bertin, Université Lyon 1, France
Jose Borbinha, IST / INESC-ID, Portugal
Zeljko Carevic, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Nicola Ferro, University of Padova, Italy
Edward Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
C. Lee Giles, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Bela Gipp, Bergische University Wuppertal, Germany
Gilles Hubert, University of Toulouse, France
Kokil Jaidka, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Roman Kern, Know-Center GmbH, Germany
Petr Knoth, The Open University, UK
Marijn Koolen, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Netherlands
Rob Koopman, OCLC, The Netherlands
Cyril Labbé, Grenoble University, France
Vincent Larivière, EBSI-UdeM, Canada
Stasa Milojevic, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Peter Mutschke, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Portugal
Philipp Schaer, TH Cologne, Germany
Andrea Scharnhorst, DANS-KNAW, The Netherlands
Vivek Singh, Banaras Hindu University, India
Henry Small, SciTech Strategies, USA
Cassidy Sugimoto, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Lynda Tamine, University of Toulouse, France
Ludovic Tanguy, University of Toulouse, France
Simone Teufel, Cambridge University, UK
Ulrich Thiel, Fraunhofer IPA-PAMB, Germany
Dietmar Wolfram, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Haozhen Zhao, Navigant, USA
=== Program Chairs ===
Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse, France
Ingo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire in Luton, UK
Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
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Looking forward to seeing you in Cologne!
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