A suggestion: you might want to also add Biblio-Citation-Parser by Mike
Jewell (http://search.cpan.org/~mjewell/Biblio-Citation-Parser-1.10/)<http://search.cpan.org/~mjewell/Biblio-Citation-Parser-1.10/>
Steve

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Miriam Goldberg <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Thanks for pointing out these other parsing tools. I've added them to
> the list on our website (see under heading "Other Citation Tools" at
> http://freecite.library.brown.edu/).
>
> Citation metadata extraction is a difficult open problem whose
> potential solutions are based on continually-developing technologies.
> So I think it's important that we approach this task from many diverse
> angles. If our project makes a little headway here, ParsCit makes some
> headway there, and five other groups make their own advancements,
> hopefully we'll be able to pool our findings into a viable
> application.
>
> > Anyone want to compare and contrast these three projects?  Might make a
> good very
> > short article/review for the Code4Lib Journal if you wanted to.
>
> Agreed. I'd love to see this. Another idea might be to write an
> application that takes the output of multiple parsers and assembles
> the best answer.
>
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > This is the third open source citation parser I know of now. A welcome
> change from a year ago when I needed one and didn't know of any! But I can't
> help but think maybe people should be cooperating more instead of
> engineering their own wheels. Also curious if anyone has looked at all three
> and can compare and contrast and make a reccommendation.
> >
> > The other two I know about are:
> >
> > ParsCit -- http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/parsCit/
> > A CDL project I don't have a good home page for, but code is here:
> http://gales.cdlib.org/~egh/hmm-citation-extractor/
> >
> > I've been keeping track because I have a use for this, although haven't
> had time to make use of any of them yet.
> >
> > Anyone want to compare and contrast these three projects?  Might make a
> good very short article/review for the Code4Lib Journal if you wanted to.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> >
> >>>> jean rainwater <[log in to unmask]> 09/12/08 2:25 PM >>>
> > Please help us beta test "FreeCite", a new citation parser for
> > non-structured bibliographic data. FreeCite is the result of
> > collaboration between the Brown University Library and Public Display,
> > a Providence-based software company founded by and employing many
> > Brown grads.  Public Display's core business is information
> > extraction. Partial funding for this project was provided by the
> > Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
> >
> > FreeCite is implemented in Ruby on Rails and uses the CRF++ library
> > implementation of conditional random fields. The model is trained on
> > the CORA dataset  with lexical augmentation from the Directory of
> > Research and Researchers at Brown (DRR-B). The API and code are
> > available at: http://freecite.library.brown.edu.
> >
> > Jean Rainwater
> > Co-Leader, Integrated Technology Services
> > Brown University Library
> > Providence, RI 02912
> > 401.863.9031
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
>