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Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery  2021, Vol. 5 Issue (8): 25-33    DOI: 10.11925/infotech.2096-3467.2021.0226
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Extracting Citation Contents with Coreference Resolution
Tan Ying1(),Tang Yifei2
1School of Public Administration, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China
2School of Information Management, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
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Abstract  

[Objective] This paper aims to accurately extract scientific citations and their context data, which significantly improves the results of citation analysis. [Methods] We divided the citation extraction task into citation sentence extraction, citation context identification, and citation metadata. Then, we proposed a coreference resolution-based method to identify and extract scientific citation context. [Results] We examined our method with the Chinese sequential coding periodicals and extracted the citation sentences and references correctly. The F1 value for identifying the citation context was between 0.780 and 0.849. [Limitations] Due to the limits of Chinese scientific citation corpus and the small scale of experimental data, the proposed method might not work effectively in other fields. [Conclusions] Our study optimizes the steps of citation content analysis and enlarges data scope. It provides support for researchers of citation content analysis.

Key wordsInformation Extraction      Coreference Resolution      Citation Content      Citation Context     
Received: 08 March 2021      Published: 15 September 2021
ZTFLH:  G250  
Fund:National Social Science Fund of China(19ZDA345)
Corresponding Authors: Tan Ying ORCID:0000-0002-7987-4696     E-mail: tanying1219@qq.com

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Tan Ying, Tang Yifei. Extracting Citation Contents with Coreference Resolution. Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery, 2021, 5(8): 25-33.

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https://manu44.magtech.com.cn/Jwk_infotech_wk3/EN/10.11925/infotech.2096-3467.2021.0226     OR     https://manu44.magtech.com.cn/Jwk_infotech_wk3/EN/Y2021/V5/I8/25

Framework of Citation Content Extraction
特征 含义
位置特征 句位置 引文句和候选上下文的位置和距离关系
标题位置 引文句和候选上下文是否位于同一标题
段落位置 引文句和候选上下文是否位于同一段落
段内位置 候选句位于段落的相对位置
指代特征 第三人称代词 句中是否含有第三人称代词
指示代词 句中是否有指示代词
语义特征 人名 句中是否包含引文作者名
文献名 句中是否包含文献名
专有名词 句中分别包含领域知识全称和简称
连词 句中是否包含连词
引文特征 候选句引文 候选上下文句是否包含引文
引文标识符数量 目标引文句中包含引文标识符个数
Features Used for Citation Context Identification
Example Annotation of a Citation Context
Relative Position of Citation Context
Result of Citation Sentence Extraction
类型 提及检测 筛选过滤 高频词
第三人称代词 149 15 他,他们,她
指示代词 449 384 该,其,这,此,另
人名 952 17
文献名 68 15
专有名词 36 36 LSA,LDA,NPLM
连词 1 777 549 然而,但,此外,总体而言
Result of Mentions Detection and Filter
序号 特征 类型 信息增益
1 与目标引文的位置距离 Nominal 0.328 05
2 候选上下文句是否包含引文 Nominal 0.240 31
3 目标引文句中的引文数量 Numeric 0.240 31
4 是否位于同一段落 Nominal 0.140 75
5 是否位于同一标题 Nominal 0.099 91
6 是否包含有效指示代词 Nominal 0.048 26
7 候选句的段落位置 Nominal 0.039 05
8 是否包含有效第三人称代词 Nominal 0.031 07
9 是否包含引文作者名 Nominal 0.030 64
10 是否包含文献名 Nominal 0.005 84
11 是否包含有效连词 Nominal 0.002 58
12 是否包含有效专有名词 Nominal 0.001 98
Features and Information Gain for Citation Context Identification
随机
样本集
初始特征集 过滤筛选后特征集
准确率 召回率 F1 准确率 召回率 F1
1 0.787 0.819 0.803 0.833 0.833 0.833
2 0.852 0.485 0.611 0.829 0.853 0.841
3 0.821 0.697 0.754 0.842 0.727 0.780
4 0.809 0.833 0.821 0.826 0.864 0.844
5 0.841 0.841 0.841 0.792 0.826 0.809
6 0.844 0.806 0.824 0.824 0.836 0.830
7 0.792 0.884 0.836 0.805 0.899 0.849
8 0.817 0.853 0.835 0.787 0.868 0.825
9 0.828 0.779 0.803 0.862 0.824 0.842
10 0.762 0.716 0.738 0.783 0.806 0.794
Comparison of Random Sample Performance of Filter Features with Baselines
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