@inproceedings{kezar-pujara-2021-finding,
    title = "Finding Pragmatic Differences Between Disciplines",
    author = "Kezar, Lee  and
      Pujara, Jay",
    editor = "Beltagy, Iz  and
      Cohan, Arman  and
      Feigenblat, Guy  and
      Freitag, Dayne  and
      Ghosal, Tirthankar  and
      Hall, Keith  and
      Herrmannova, Drahomira  and
      Knoth, Petr  and
      Lo, Kyle  and
      Mayr, Philipp  and
      Patton, Robert M.  and
      Shmueli-Scheuer, Michal  and
      de Waard, Anita  and
      Wang, Kuansan  and
      Wang, Lucy Lu",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing",
    month = jun,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2021.sdp-1.10/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.sdp-1.10",
    pages = "83--90",
    abstract = "Scholarly documents have a great degree of variation, both in terms of content (semantics) and structure (pragmatics). Prior work in scholarly document understanding emphasizes semantics through document summarization and corpus topic modeling but tends to omit pragmatics such as document organization and flow. Using a corpus of scholarly documents across 19 disciplines and state-of-the-art language modeling techniques, we learn a fixed set of domain-agnostic descriptors for document sections and ``retrofit'' the corpus to these descriptors (also referred to as ``normalization''). Then, we analyze the position and ordering of these descriptors across documents to understand the relationship between discipline and structure. We report within-discipline structural archetypes, variability, and between-discipline comparisons, supporting the hypothesis that scholarly communities, despite their size, diversity, and breadth, share similar avenues for expressing their work. Our findings lay the foundation for future work in assessing research quality, domain style transfer, and further pragmatic analysis."
}