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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2024)
Welcome to the Fourth Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP) at ACL 2024. As the body of scholarly literature grows, automated methods in NLP, text mining, information retrieval, document understanding etc. are needed to address issues of information overload, disinformation, reproducibility, and more. Though progress has been made, there are significant unique challenges to processing scholarly text that require dedicated attention. The goal of the Scholarly Document Processing series of workshops is to provide a venue for addressing these challenges, as well as a platform for tasks and resources supporting the processing of scientific documents. Our long-term objective is to establish scholarly and scientific texts as an essential domain for NLP research, to supplement current efforts on web text and news articles. This workshop builds on the success of prior workshops: the SDP workshop held at COLING in 2022, NAACL in 2021 and EMNLP in 2020, and the SciNLP workshop held at AKBC 2020 and AKBC 2021. As in previous years, we have sought to bring together researchers and practitioners from various backgrounds focusing on different aspects of scholarly document processing. We believe that the interdisciplinary nature of the ACL venues greatly assists in encouraging submissions from a diverse set of fields.