Automatic classification of citation function

The automatic recognition of the rhetorical function of citations in scientific text has many applications, from improvement of impact factor calculations to text summarisation and more informative citation indexers. Citation function is defined as the author's reason for citing a given paper (e.g. acknowledgement of the use of the cited method). We show that our annotation scheme for citation function is reliable, and present a supervised machine learning framework to automatically classify citation function, which uses several shallow and linguistically-inspired features. We find, amongst other things, a strong relationship between citation function and sentiment classification.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: EMNLP
• Authors: Simone Teufel, Advaith Siddharthan, Dan Tidhar
• Keywords: Citation Function, EMNLP 2006, EMNLP 2007, Informative Citation Indexers, Rhetorical Function