# Structural Scaffolds for Citation Intent Classification in Scientific Publications

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01608 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.01608/

## Key facts

- Cited by 130 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 2 Apr 2019.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Identifying the intent of a citation in scientific papers (e.g., background information, use of methods, comparing results) is critical for machine reading of individual publications and automated analysis of the scientific literature. We propose structural scaffolds, a multitask model to incorporate structural information of scientific papers into citations for effective classification of citation intents. Our model achieves a new state-of-the-art on an existing ACL anthology dataset (ACL-ARC) with a 13.3% absolute increase in F1 score, without relying on external linguistic resources or hand-engineered features as done in existing methods. In addition, we introduce a new dataset of citation intents (SciCite) which is more than five times larger and covers multiple scientific domains compared with existing datasets. Our code and data are available at: https://github.com/allenai/scicite.