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Show HN: Unstructured Citations to BibTeX with Conditional Random Fields
- ygra 12y agoSide note: Page ranges should be formatted as 1044–1048, i.e. 1044--1048 in TeX. Since you already seem to correctly parse the range, using the correct dash shouldn't be too hard (couldn't really find the place in the code right now, though, so no PR, sorry).
- rmcgibbo 12y agoOh good point. Thanks!
- a3_nm 12y agoDidn't work on "[6] J. Wang, J. Han, Y. Lu, and P. Tzvetkov. TFP: An efficient algorithm for mining top-k frequent closed itemsets. TKDE, 17(5), 2005." I tried reporting it by clicking the red cross but it doesn't seem like anything happens when you do it. It's an interesting idea, however. It looks like it would be especially relevant to structure citations extracted automatically from a PDF. I wonder if existing tools like Google Scholar are using something of the kind.
- rmcgibbo 12y agoI forgot to add any acknowledgement via the UI when the the red cross gets clicked (but it was logged :))
- a3_nm 12y agoThanks! By the way, your blog http://rmcgibbo.org/posts/ http://rmcgibbo.org/posts/ seems to be missing an RSS/Atom feed; I would subscribe if there were one. (I would also tell you this via email, but your website is also missing an email address.)
- rmcgibbo 12y agoOh good points. I'll add those. Especially the email.
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- jessriedel 12y agoIt would be nice if this could be configured to take you to the Google Scholar result, or the journal webpage (DOI), since I often want that instead than the bibtex entry. Incidentally, I've always been blown away that Google Scholar isn't smarter with unstructured citations. I've literally had cases where it choked on a citation with "Phys. Rev. Lett." but then correctly identified it when un-abbreviated to "Physical Review Letters". Crazy.
- rmcgibbo 12y agoYeah, this is on the list of things to add. I think at this point google scholar is mostly abandonware. The team maintaining it is very small, and not really adding new features.
- jessriedel 12y agoAhh, yes I see now that your website is doing parsing, and that linking up with another service to match, say, DOIs, would be a significant amount of additional work. Still, yours is a great tool! You're probably already aware of it, but it might be worth checking out CrossRef's Simple Text Query http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/ http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/
- Rhapso 12y agoThank you! I wish I had this years go.
- stared 12y agoIt would be cool if it were searching for DOI as well.
- wodenokoto 12y agoThis is really cool and something I have been missing. It still gets little things wrong, but it is pretty good. Next step is to automatically extract these from PDF and integrate it into various citation management programs :)