• The linguistic patterns and rhetorical structure of citation context : an approach using n-grams 

    Bertin, Marc; Atanassova, Iana; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Larivière, Vincent (Springer, 2016)
    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 ...
  • On the composition of scientific abstracts 

    Atanassova, Iana; Bertin, Marc; Larivière, Vincent (Emerald, 2016-07-11)
    Purpose Scientific abstracts reproduce only part of the information and the complexity of argumentation in a scientific article. The purpose of this paper provides a first analysis of the similarity between the text of scientific abstracts and the ...