TOWARD A CATALOGUE OF CITATION-RELATED RHETORICAL CUES IN SCIENTIFIC TEXTS

摘要

Scientific citations establish an explicit network of relationships among mutually relevant articles within a research field. By convention, authors include citations in their papers to indicate works that are foundational in their field, background for their own work, or representative of complementary or contradictory research. But, determining a posteriori the nature of the exact relationship that an author intended between a citing and cited paper is often difficult to ascertain. To address this problem, the aim of formal citation analysis has been to categorize and, ultimately, automatically classify scientific citations. In previous work, Garzone and Mercer (2000) presented a system for citation classification that relied on characteristic syntactic structure to determine citation category. In this present work, we extend this idea to propose a more general catalogue of stylistic and rhetorical techniques that may provide just such an appropriate basis for categorization.