On Forgetting to Cite Older Papers: An Analysis of the ACL Anthology
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On Forgetting to Cite Older Papers : An Analysis of the ACL Anthology. / Bollmann, Marc Marcel; Elliott, Desmond.
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. p. 7819-7827.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - On Forgetting to Cite Older Papers
T2 - 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
AU - Bollmann, Marc Marcel
AU - Elliott, Desmond
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The field of natural language processing is experiencing a period of unprecedented growth, and with it a surge of published papers. This represents an opportunity for us to take stock of how we cite the work of other researchers, and whether this growth comes at the expense of “forgetting” about older literature. In this paper, we address this question through bibliographic analysis. By looking at the age of outgoing citations in papers published at selected ACL venues between 2010 and 2019, we find that there is indeed a tendency for recent papers to cite more recent work, but the rate at which papers older than 15 years are cited has remained relatively stable.
AB - The field of natural language processing is experiencing a period of unprecedented growth, and with it a surge of published papers. This represents an opportunity for us to take stock of how we cite the work of other researchers, and whether this growth comes at the expense of “forgetting” about older literature. In this paper, we address this question through bibliographic analysis. By looking at the age of outgoing citations in papers published at selected ACL venues between 2010 and 2019, we find that there is indeed a tendency for recent papers to cite more recent work, but the rate at which papers older than 15 years are cited has remained relatively stable.
U2 - 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.699
DO - 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.699
M3 - Article in proceedings
SP - 7819
EP - 7827
BT - Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics
Y2 - 5 July 2020 through 10 July 2020
ER -
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