Multi-sentence and multi-intent classification using RoBERTa and graph convolutional neural network

Abstract Citation analysis has garnered significant attention in academia, particularly in the realm of scientometrics analysis. Most studies related to citation analysis focus on quantitative aspects, assigning equal weight to every citation regardless of its placement within the paper. However, understanding the distribution of citation weight across different sections of a research article is crucial for citation analysis and impact assessment. Therefore, the analysis of citation intent becomes a pivotal task in determining the qualitative importance of a citation within a scientific article. In this context, we undertook two essential tasks related to citation analysis: citation length analysis and citation intent analysis. Through citation length analysis, we identified the optimal number of citation sentences to consider around a cited sentence. Simultaneously, citation intent analysis aimed to categorize citations into seven distinct types, namely background, motivation, uses, extends, similarities, differences, and future work. For the latter task, we introduced two novel architectures based on graph neural networks, namely CiteIntentRoBERTaGCN and CiteIntentRoBERTaGAT. The performance of these proposed models was evaluated on five multi-intent datasets curated from 1,200 research papers, considering different context lengths. The results demonstrated that the proposed models achieved state-of-the-art performance.