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

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