On Forgetting to Cite Older Papers: An Analysis of the ACL Anthology Article Swipe
Related Concepts
Forgetting
Stock (firearms)
Computer science
Field (mathematics)
Period (music)
History
Data science
Psychology
Cognitive psychology
Mathematics
Art
Aesthetics
Pure mathematics
Archaeology
Marcel Bollmann
,
Desmond Elliott
·
YOU?
·
· 2020
· Open Access
·
· DOI: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.699
· OA: W3035366421
YOU?
·
· 2020
· Open Access
·
· DOI: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.699
· OA: W3035366421
The field of natural language processing is experiencing a period of unprecedented growth, and with it a surge of published papers. This represents an opportunity for us to take stock of how we cite the work of other researchers, and whether this growth comes at the expense of “forgetting” about older literature. In this paper, we address this question through bibliographic analysis. By looking at the age of outgoing citations in papers published at selected ACL venues between 2010 and 2019, we find that there is indeed a tendency for recent papers to cite more recent work, but the rate at which papers older than 15 years are cited has remained relatively stable.
Related Topics
Finding more related topics…