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An NLP-based citation reason analysis using CCRO

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  • Imran Ihsan

    (Capital University of Science and Technology
    Air University)

  • M. Abdul Qadir

    (Capital University of Science and Technology)

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In recent scientific advances, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing are the major contributors to classifying documents and extracting information. Classifying citations in different classes have gathered a lot of attention due to the large volume of citations available in different digital libraries. Typical citation classification uses sentiment analysis, where various techniques are applied to citations texts to mainly classify them in “Positive”, “Negative” and “Neutral” sentiments. However, there can be innumerable reasons why an author selects another research for citation. Citations’ Context and Reasons Ontology—CCRO uses a clear scientific method to articulate eight basic reasons for citing by using an iterative process of sentiment analysis, collaborative meanings, and experts' opinions. Using CCRO, this research paper adopts an ontology-based approach to extract citation's reasons and instantiate ontology classes and properties on two different corpora of citation sentences. One corpus of citation sentences is a publicly available dataset, while the other is our own manually curated. The process uses a two-step approach. The first part is an interface to manually annotate each citation text in the selected corpora on CCRO properties. A team of carefully selected annotators has annotated each citation to achieve a high inter-annotator agreement. The second part focuses on the automatic extraction of these reasons. Using Natural Language Processing, Mapping Graph, and Reporting Verb in a citation sentence, citation's reason is extracted and mapped onto a CCRO property. After comparing both manual and automatic mapping, accuracy is calculated. Based on experiments and results, accuracy is calculated for both publicly available and own corpora of citation sentences.

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  • Imran Ihsan & M. Abdul Qadir, 2021. "An NLP-based citation reason analysis using CCRO," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 126(6), pages 4769-4791, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:126:y:2021:i:6:d:10.1007_s11192-021-03955-6
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-021-03955-6
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