The linguistic patterns and rhetorical structure of citation context: an approach using n-grams
Abstract
Using the full-text corpus of more than 75,000 research articles published by seven PLOS journals, this paper proposes a natural language processing approach for identifying the function of citations. Citation contexts are assigned based on the frequency of n-gram co-occurrences located near the citations. Results show that the most frequent linguistic patterns found in the citation contexts of papers vary according to their location in the...
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Title
The linguistic patterns and rhetorical structure of citation context: an approach using n-grams
Published Date
Sep 30, 2016
Journal
Volume
109
Issue
3
Pages
1417 - 1434
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