Abstract: Citations are not equally important. Researchers presented different models and techniques to identify important citations. However, the features used in these work are relatively limited, so they cannot achieve good recognition performance. This paper proposed a new machine learning framework to distinguish important and non-important citations by examining the syntactic and contextual information of citations. Among them, syntactic features reflect the statistical perspective characteristics brought by citation behavior, such as the cited fre...
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Topics: 
Artificial intelligence
Natural language processing
Machine learning