NFDI4DS organizes interactive events, such as hackathons and shared tasks, that attract the data science and AI community.

Shared tasks provide a framework for scientifically exciting and challenging tasks for the NFDI4DS community. A shared task is a scientific event and a friendly competition to solve a research problem, the task.

NFDI4DS is currently organizing an extensive line-up of shared tasks. It provides each shared task together with a dataset. Currently, a number of shared tasks are running in the context of well-known events.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us via nfdi4ds@fokus.fraunhofer.de.

Upcoming Shared Tasks:

• Task - LLMs4Subjects at Konvens 2025

  • LLMs4Subjects: LLM-based Subject Tagging (2nd edition)
  • https://sites.google.com/view/llms4subjects-germeval/home
  • Contact: Jennifer d’Souza (TIB)

• Task - ClimateCheck at ACL 2025

  • ClimateCheck: Scientific Fact-checking of Social Media Posts on Climate Change
  • https://sdproc.org/2025/climatecheck.html
  • Contact: Raia Abu Ahmad (DFKI) & Georg Rehm (DFKI)

• Task - SciVQA at ACL 2025

  • SciVQA: Scientific Visual Question Answering
  • https://sdproc.org/2025/scivqa.html
  • Contact: Ekaterina Borisova (DFKI) & Georg Rehm (DFKI)

• Task - SOMD at ACL 2025

  • SOMD: Software Mention Detection in Scholarly Publications (2nd edition)
  • https://sdproc.org/2025/somd25.html
  • Contact: Frank Krüger (HS Wismar) & Stefan Dietze (GESIS)

• Task - LLMs4Subjects at ACL 2025

  • LLMs4Subjects: LLM-based Subject Tagging
  • https://sites.google.com/view/llms4subjects/home
  • Contact: Jennifer d’Souza (TIB)

• Task - FORC at ESWC 2025

  • FORC: Field of Research Classification (2nd edition)
  • https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2025/docs/forc_shared_task.html
  • Contact: Raia Abu Ahmad (DFKI) & Georg Rehm (DFKI)

• Task - MESD at ESWC 2025

  • MESD: Metadata Extraction from Scholarly Documents
  • https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2025/docs/mesd_shared_task.html
  • Contact: Zeyd Boukhers (FIT)

• Task - ReadMe2KG at ESWC 2025

  • ReadMe2KG: GitHub ReadMe to Knowledge Graph
  • https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2025/docs/readme2kg_shared_task.html
  • Contact: Genet Asefa Gesese (FIZ Karlsruhe)

Previous Shared Tasks:

2024

• Task - KGQA at ACL 2024

  • KGQA: Knowledge Graph Question Answering
  • https://sites.google.com/view/textgraphs2024/home/shared-task
  • Contact: Tilahun Abedissa (UHH) & Ricardo Usbeck (UHH)

• Task - SOTA? at CLEF 2024

  • SOTA: Tracking the State-of-the-Art in AI Scholarly Publications
  • https://sites.google.com/view/simpletext-sota/home
  • Contact: Jennifer D’Souza (TIB)

• Task - FoRC at ESWC 2024

  • FORC: Field of Research Classification of Scholarly Publications
  • https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/docs/forc_shared_task.html
  • Contact: Raia Abu Ahmad (DFKI) & Georg Rehm (DFKI)

• Task - SOMD at ESWC 2024

  • SOMD: Software Mention Detection in Scholarly Publications
  • https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/docs/somd_shared_task.html
  • Contact: Frank Krüger (HS Wismar) & Stefan Dietze (GESIS)

• Task - LLMs4OL at ISWC 2024

  • LLMsOL: Large Language Models for Ontology Learning
  • https://sites.google.com/view/llms4ol/
  • Contact: Jennifer d’Souza (TIB)

• Task - Scholarly QALD at ISWC 2024

  • Scholarly QALD: Hybrid Question Answering over Scholarly Knowledge Graphs and Text (2nd edition)
  • https://kgqa.github.io/scholarly-QALD-challenge/2024
  • Contact: Tilahun Abedissa (UHH) & Ricardo Usbeck (UHH)

2023

• Task - Scholarly QALD at ISWC 2023
  • Scholarly QALD: Question Answering over Scholarly Knowledge Graphs
  • https://kgqa.github.io/scholarly-QALD-challenge/2023/
  • Contact: Ricardo Usbeck (UHH) & Sören Auer (TIB)