Publication
FoRC4CL: A Fine-grained Field of Research Classification and Annotated Dataset of NLP Articles
Raia Abu Ahmad; Ekaterina Borisova; Georg Rehm
In: Nicoletta Calzolari; Min-Yen Kan; Veronique Hoste; Alessandro Lenci; Sakti Sakriani; Nianwen Xue (Hrsg.). Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2024), May 20-25, Turino, Italy, Italy, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 5/2024.
Abstract
The steep increase in the number of scholarly publications has given rise to various digital repositories, libraries and knowledge graphs aimed to capture, manage, and preserve scientific data. Efficiently navigating such databases requires a system able to classify scholarly documents according to the respective research (sub-)field. However, not every digital repository possesses a relevant classification schema for categorising publications. For instance, one of the largest digital archives in Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), the ACL Anthology, lacks a system for classifying papers into topics and sub-topics. This paper addresses this gap by constructing a corpus of 1,500 ACL Anthology publications annotated with their main contributions using a novel hierarchical taxonomy of core CL/NLP topics and sub-topics. The corpus is used in a shared task with the goal of classifying CL/NLP papers into their respective sub-topics.