Citation Worthiness of Sentences in Scientific Reports

Hamed Bonab; Hamed Zamani; E. Learned-Miller; James Allan

DOI:10.1145/3209978.3210162

Corpus ID: 47019555

Citation Worthiness of Sentences in Scientific Reports

@article{Bonab2018CitationWO,
  title={Citation Worthiness of Sentences in Scientific Reports},
  author={Hamed Bonab and Hamed Zamani and E. Learned-Miller and James Allan},
  journal={The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval},
  year={2018}
}

Hamed Bonab, Hamed Zamani, +1 author James Allan

Published 2018

Computer Science

The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval

Does this sentence need citation? In this paper, we introduce the task of citation worthiness for scientific texts at a sentence-level granularity. The task is to detect whether a sentence in a scientific article needs to be cited or not. It can be incorporated into citation recommendation systems to help automate the citation process by marking sentences where needed. It may also be useful for publishers to regularize the citation process. We construct a dataset using the ACL Anthology… CONTINUE READING

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