70 - Measuring the Evolution of a Scientific Field through Citation Frames, with David Jurgens

TACL 2018 paper (presented at ACL 2018) by David Jurgens, Srijan
Kumar, Raine Hoover, Daniel A. McFarland, and Daniel Jurafsky David
comes on the podcast to talk to us about citation frames. We
discuss the dataset they created by painstakingly annotating the
"citation type" for all of the citations in a large collection of
papers (around 2000 citations in total), then training a classifier
on that data to annotate the rest of the ACL anthology. This
process itself is interesting, including how exactly the citations
are classified, and we talk about this for a bit. The second half
of the podcast talks about the analysis that David and colleagues
did using the (automatically) annotated ACL anthology, trying to
gauge how the field has changed over time.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Measuring-the-Evolution-of-a-Scientific-Field-Jurgens-Kumar/65118f3a7463f54bdf9b9e5cdd655953a2488c2f