Scientific research is almost exclusively published in unstructured text formats, which are not readily machine-readable. While technological approaches can help to get this flood of scientific information and new knowledge under control, the development of such technologies is very complex in practice and hinders the creation of infrastructures and systems to track research and assist the scientific community with applications such as dedicated scientific search engines and recommender systems. The 2nd Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP) aims to bring together researchers working on the processing, analysis, transformation and making-use-of scientific language and Research Knowledge Graphs including all relevant sub-topics. NSLP 2025 is a full-day workshop co-located with ESWC 2025 to be held in Portoroz, Slovenia in June 2025. The workshop consists of a keynote speaker as well as presentations and posters of accepted papers.

Submission Guidelines

The NSLP 2025 workshop invites submissions of regular long papers, position papers, and short papers presenting negative results, in-progress projects, and demos. We especially encourage submissions from junior researchers and students from diverse backgrounds.

• We will not accept work that is under review or has already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal, another conference, or another workshop.
• The workshop invites anonymous submissions of regular long papers (up to 15 pages without references and appendix), position papers, and short papers (up to 8 pages without references and appendix) presenting negative results, in-progress projects, and demos.
• Authors are permitted to include an optional appendix of up to 2 pages. However, reviewers will not be mandated to review the appendix and all papers must be self-contained.
• Reviewing will be performed double-blind. Reviewers will not actively try to identify the authors.Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
• The proceedings of this workshop will be published as an Open Access volume in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). All costs associated with publishing papers in this proceedings volume will be covered by NFDI4DS project.
• At least one author per contribution must register for the conference for presentation.
• All submissions are done via EasyChair.

List of Topics

• Research/Scientific Knowledge Graphs (RKGs/SKGs) and other forms of Structured Scientific Knowledge Representation
• Information Extraction for RKGs/SKGs
• Question Answering over RKGs/SKGs
• Scientific LLMs: LLMs for Natural Scientific Language Processing
• Natural Scientific Language Processing (monolingual, cross-lingual, multilingual)
• Language Resources and Language Technologies for Natural Scientific Language Processing
• Information Extraction from Scholarly PublicationsClassification of Scholarly Publications (document collections, individual documents, parts of documents)
• Summarisation of Scholarly Articles
• Scholarly Information Retrieval and Scientific Search Engines
• Digital Libraries of Scholarly Information
• Metadata and Cataloging
• Bibliometrics and Scientometrics
• Domain-specific Adaptation of Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods for NSLP purposes
• Micropublications and Nanopublications

Committees

Program Committee

• to be announced soon

Organizing committee

• Georg Rehm (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)

• Sonja Schimmler (Technical University of Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)

• Stefan Dietze (GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften & Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany)

• Natalia Manola (OpenAIRE, Greece)

Invited Speakers

• Michele Pasin, Digital Science, UK

Publication

The NSLP 2025 proceedings will be published by Springer as a proceedings volume in the LNAI series (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence).

Venue

The conference will be held in Portoroz, Slovenia, co-located with ESWC 2025.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Georg Rehm <georg.rehm@dfki.de>.