Whose Idea Was This, and Why Does it Matter? Attributing Scientific Work to Citations
Advaith Siddharthan, Simone Teufel · Open Research Online - ORO (The Open University) · 2007
Scientific papers revolve around citations, and for many discourse level tasks one needs to know whose work is being talked about at any point in the discourse. In this paper, we introduce the scientific attribution task, which links different linguistic expressions to citations. We discuss the suitability of different evaluation metrics and evaluate our classification approach to deciding attribution both intrinsically and in an extrinsic evaluation where information about scientific attribution is shown to improve performance on Argumentative Zoning, a rhetorical classification task.