Function of Citation in Astrophysics Literature (FOCAL): Findings of the Shared Task
Félix Grèzes, Thomas S. Allen, Tirthankar Ghosal, Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma · 2023
In this article, we describe the overview of our shared task: Function of Citation in Astrophysics Literature (FOCAL).The FOCAL shared task was part of the Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications (WIESP) 1 in IJCNLP-AACL 2023.Information extraction from scientific publications is critical in several downstream tasks such as identification of critical entities, article summarization, citation classification, etc.In particular, the citation graph is an essential tool for helping researchers find relevant literature.To further empower discovery, the motivation of this shared task was to develop a communitywide effort to label the edges of the graph with the function of the citation: e.g. is the cited work necessary background knowledge, or is it used as a comparison, to the citing work?We propose a shared task of automatically labeling citations with a function based on the textual context of the citation, and analyze the systems, performances, and findings of FOCAL participants.