MultiCite: Modeling realistic citations requires moving beyond the single-sentence single-label setting
Anne Lauscher, Brandon Ko, Bailey Kuehl, Sophie Johnson, Arman Cohan, David Jurgens, Kyle Lo
Abstract
Citation context analysis (CCA) is an important task in natural language processing that studies how and why scholars discuss each others’ work. Despite decades of study, computational methods for CCA have largely relied on overly-simplistic assumptions of how authors cite, which ignore several important phenomena. For instance, scholarly papers often contain rich discussions of cited work that span multiple sentences and express multiple intents concurrently. Yet, recent work in CCA is often approached as a single-sentence, single-label classification task, and thus many datasets used to develop modern computational approaches fail to capture this interesting discourse. To address this research gap, we highlight three understudied phenomena for CCA and release MULTICITE, a new dataset of 12.6K citation contexts from 1.2K computational linguistics papers that fully models these phenomena. Not only is it the largest collection of expert-annotated citation contexts to-date, MULTICITE contains multi-sentence, multi-label citation contexts annotated through-out entire full paper texts. We demonstrate how MULTICITE can enable the development of new computational methods on three important CCA tasks. We release our code and dataset at https://github.com/allenai/multicite.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.naacl-main.137
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Seattle, United States
- Editors:
- Marine Carpuat, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz
- Venue:
- NAACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1875–1889
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.137
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.137
- Cite (ACL):
- Anne Lauscher, Brandon Ko, Bailey Kuehl, Sophie Johnson, Arman Cohan, David Jurgens, and Kyle Lo. 2022. MultiCite: Modeling realistic citations requires moving beyond the single-sentence single-label setting. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 1875–1889, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- MultiCite: Modeling realistic citations requires moving beyond the single-sentence single-label setting (Lauscher et al., NAACL 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2022.naacl-main.137.pdf
- Code
- allenai/multicite
- Data
- MultiCite, QASPER, S2ORC