Methodology for evaluating citation parsing and matching

Abstract

Bibliographic references between scholarly publications contain valuable information for researchers and developers involved with digital repositories. They are indicators of topical similarity between linked texts, impact of the referenced document, and improve navigation in user interfaces of digital libraries. Consequently, several approaches to extraction, parsing and resolving said references have been proposed to date. In this paper we develop a methodology for evaluating parsing and matching algorithms and choosing the most appropriate one for a document collection at hand. We apply the methodology for evaluating reference parsing and matching module of the YADDA2 software platform.