2020-08-05: Trip report to WOSP: the 8th Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications

The I nternational Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications (WOSP) started in 2012. The main theme is to use Natural Language Processing (NLP) and text mining tools to aid knowledge creation and improve the process by which the research is done. This year, due to the unprecedented pandemic by COVID-19, the entire workshop is moved online on August 5th, right after JCDL 2020. The workshop this year was organized by CORE , The Open University , UK, in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) , Tennessee, US. Keynotes Kuansan Wang (MSR Outreach Academic Services). Kuansan's presentation titled " Mitigating document collection biases with citations: A case study on CORD-19 ". Kuansan's presentation addressed a very important problem: document collection bias when conducting statistical analysis on distribution over subject fields, journal importance, and author networks. By comparing the properties of corpora selected by their algorithms, they had two