SciVQA: Scientific Visual Question Answering Shared Task

Hosted as part of the SDP 2025 Workshop
July 31 or August 1st, 2025 (tbc)
Vienna, Austria 
(co-located with ACL 2025)

SciVQA Shared Task: https://sdproc.org/2025/scivqa.html
SDP 2025 Workshop: https://sdproc.org/2025/index.html 



Task Overview

Scholarly articles convey valuable information not only through unstructured 
text but also via (semi-)structured figures such as charts and diagrams. 
Automatically interpreting the semantics of knowledge encoded in these figures 
can be beneficial for downstream tasks such as question answering (QA). 

In the SciVQA challenge, participants will develop multimodal QA systems using 
a dataset of scientific figures from ACL Anthology and arXiv papers. Each 
figure image is annotated with seven QA pairs and includes metadata such as 
caption, figure ID, figure type (e.g., compound, line graph, bar chart, scatter 
plot, etc.), QA pair type. This shared task specifically focuses on 
closed-ended visual (i.e., addressing visual attributes of a figure such as 
colour, shape, size, height, etc.) and non-visual (not addressing figure visual 
attributes) questions. 

Evaluation

Systems will be evaluated using metrics such as BLEU, METEOR, and ROUGE. 
Automated evaluations of submitted systems will be done through the Codabench 
platform (link will be provided soon on the webpage).

Important Dates

Release of training data: April 1, 2025 
Release of testing data: April 15, 2025
Deadline for system submissions: May 16, 2025 
Paper submission deadline: May 23, 2025 
Notification of acceptance: June 13, 2025 
Camera-ready paper due: June 20, 2025 
Workshop: July 31, 2025 or August 1, 2025 (TBA)
Participants are also invited to submit papers on their systems. Successful 
submissions will be published in the proceedings of the SDP 2025 workshop.


Organizers

Ekaterina Borisova (DFKI, Berlin, Germany)

Georg Rehm (DFKI, Berlin, Germany)


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