 |
 |
Hi: A while ago, we noted that some folks here had run into the problem of parsing reference strings (the lines at the end of a paper that points to other refereed work). When canonicalized, such data can be used to create citation networks and potentially used as in bibliometric measurements. Up to now, there have been several tools that have been released to do this type of work manually using templates but such approaches are often fragile. While there have been research reports on the subject (in computer science) such work has not been made into publicly available code libraries or packages. We have now made such a package available and hope that all of you who need to construct tools or use data from bibliographic sources will find it useful. There are accompanying web demos as well as a web service. You can find it by searching the web for "ParsCit" or by using the link below: http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/parsCit/ This work is a joint collaboration between myself at the National University of Singapore and Isaac G Councill and C Lee Giles of Penn State University. They are the folks behind the CiteSeer and CiteSeerX scientific digital library systems. We look forward to your feedback. Thanks, -Min -- Min-Yen KAN (Dr) :: Assistant Professor :: National University of Singapore :: School of Computing, AS6 05-12, Law Link, Singapore 117590 :: 65-6516 1885(DID) :: 65-6779 4580 (Fax) :: [log in to unmask] (E) :: www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy (W) Important: This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately; you should not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you.