A Study of Lexical Distribution in Citation Contexts through the IMRaD Standard

Abstract

Abstract. In this paper we present a large-scale approach for the ex-traction of verbs in reference contexts. We analyze citation contexts in relation with the IMRaD structure of scientific articles and use rank cor-relation analysis to characterize the distances between the section types. The results show strong differences in the verb frequencies around ci-tations between the sections in the IMRaD structure. This study is a ”one-more-step ” towards the lexical and semantic analysis of citation contexts.