MultiCite: Modeling realistic citations requires moving beyond the single-sentence single-label setting

Citation context analysis (CCA) is an important task in natural language processing that studies how and why scholars discuss each others' work. Despite decades of study, traditional frameworks for CCA have largely relied on overly-simplistic assumptions of how authors cite, which ignore several important phenomena. For instance, scholarly papers often contain rich discussions of cited work that span multiple sentences and express multiple intents concurrently. Yet, CCA is typically approached as a single-sentence, single-label classification task, and thus existing datasets fail to capture this interesting discourse. In our work, we address this research gap by proposing a novel framework for CCA as a document-level context extraction and labeling task. We release MultiCite, a new dataset of 12,653 citation contexts from over 1,200 computational linguistics papers. Not only is it the largest collection of expert-annotated citation contexts to-date, MultiCite contains multi-sentence, multi-label citation contexts within full paper texts. Finally, we demonstrate how our dataset, while still usable for training classic CCA models, also supports the development of new types of models for CCA beyond fixed-width text classification. We release our code and dataset at https://github.com/allenai/multicite.

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