[Call for Participation] AstroCLIMB Shared Task — Multimodal Citation Linking @ WASP 2026 (AACL-IJCNLP)

The AstroCLIMB Shared Task at WASP 2026 focuses on the critical challenge of multimodal citation linking within the specialized domain of astrophysics literature. This initiative invites researchers in NLP, computer vision, and information retrieval to address the complexities of connecting textual citations to visual data, such as plots and diagrams. By fostering collaboration between the AI and astronomy communities, this task aims to advance the automated discovery and provenance of scientific knowledge.

We invite researchers to submit systems capable of accurately mapping citation mentions to their corresponding multimodal artifacts in scholarly papers. Participants are encouraged to develop novel architectures that leverage both linguistic context and visual features to improve citation precision and recall.