37.2219, Confs: 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications (Online)

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Date: 29-Jun-2026
From: Atilla Kaan Alkan [atilla.alkan at cfa.harvard.edu]
Subject: 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications


4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications
Short Title: WASP 2026

Date: 09-Nov-2026 - 09-Nov-2026
Location: Online
Contact: Atilla Kaan Alkan
Contact Email: atilla.alkan at cfa.harvard.edu
Meeting URL: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus
Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng, stan1293)

Submission Deadline: 14-Sep-2026

The 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Scientific
Publications (WASP 2026)
Co-located with IJCNLP-AACL 2026
November 9, 2026, Online
Website: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/
Submissions (OpenReview):
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP
Overview:
The scientific literature now grows faster than anyone can read it.
The claims, evidence, named entities, relations, and citations that
researchers rely on remain in unstructured text rather than in any
form a machine can use directly. Turning that text into structured,
machine-readable knowledge is a central problem in NLP, and many of
the questions it raises remain open.
WASP 2026 brings together researchers working to extract, structure,
and mine knowledge from scholarly publications. As large language
models reshape how scientific text is parsed, mined, and synthesized,
this iteration keeps information extraction at its center while
broadening to the full pipeline that turns publications into usable
knowledge, from summarization and retrieval to evaluation and the
responsible use of LLMs in scientific publishing.
WASP continues a series that began as the Workshop on Information
Extraction from Scientific Publications (WIESP) at AACL-IJCNLP 2022
and IJCNLP-AACL 2023, and grew into WASP at IJCNLP-AACL 2025.
Topics of Interest (not limited to):
- Scientific document parsing and structured information extraction;
citation context/span extraction and citation-based knowledge mining
- Scientific named-entity recognition and concept identification
- Scientific literature quality assessment and automated peer review
assistance
- Argument extraction and scientific discourse analysis
- Scientific article summarisation and headline generation
- Question-answering and fact retrieval from scientific literature
- Pretraining and fine-tuning LLMs on scientific corpora
- Evaluation and alignment of LLMs for scientific understanding
- AI-assisted scientific discovery and hypothesis generation
- Cross-lingual scientific knowledge transfer and multilingual
publication processing
- Scientific trend analysis and research gap identification
- Reproducibility and replicability analysis in scientific
publications
- Ethical and responsible use of LLMs in scientific publishing
- Automated metadata generation and semantic tagging of scientific
publications
- Scientific plagiarism detection and research integrity monitoring
- Scientific collaboration network analysis and co-authorship
prediction
- Automated scientific writing assistance and manuscript generation
- Scientific image and figure analysis in publications
Submission:
Long papers: up to 8 pages of content (9 in the camera-ready), plus
unlimited references.
Short papers: up to 4 pages of content (5 in the camera-ready), plus
unlimited references.
All submissions are double-blind and must follow the host venue
formatting guidelines and ACL template files. We follow AACL-IJCNLP
2026 policies on anonymity, preprints, and double submissions.
Accepted papers will appear in the WASP 2026 proceedings in the ACL
Anthology.
Submit via OpenReview:
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP
Shared Task:
WASP 2026 will host a shared task. Details and a separate call for
papers will be announced soon. System description papers will undergo
light peer review and appear in the proceedings.
Important Dates (Anywhere on Earth):
Paper submission deadline (WASP): September 14, 2026
Registration deadline for shared task: [TBA]
System Run and Output Submission (shared task): [TBA]
System Paper Submission (shared task): [TBA]
Notification of acceptance (WASP + Shared Task): October 1, 2026
Camera-ready deadline (WASP + Shared Task): October 12, 2026
Workshop: November 9, 2026
Organizers:
- Atilla Kaan Alkan, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian,
USA
- Alberto Accomazzi, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian,
USA
- Tirthankar Ghosal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Felix Grezes, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA
- Kelly Lockhart, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA
Contact:
For inquiries: Atilla Kaan Alkan, atilla.alkan at cfa.harvard.edu



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