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Partridge is a system that enables intelligent search for academic papers by allowing users to query terms within sentences designating a particular core scientific concept (e.g. Hypothesis, Result, etc). The system also automatically classifies papers according to article types (e.g. Review, Case Study). Here, we focus on the latter aspect of the system. For each paper, Partridge automatically extracts the full paper content from PDF files, converts it to XML, determines sentence boundaries, automatically labels the sentences with core scientific concepts, and then uses a random forest model to classify the paper type. We show that the type of a paper can be reliably predicted by a model which analyses the distribution of core scientific concepts within the sentences of the paper. We discuss the appropriateness of many of the existing paper types used by major journals, and their corresponding distributions. Partridge is online and available for use, includes a browser-friendly bookmarklet for new paper submission, and demonstrates a range of possibilities for more intelligent search in the scientific literature. The Partridge instance and further information about the project can be found at http://papro.org.uk.
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We thank the Leverhulme Trust for the support to Dr Liakata’s Early Career Fellowship and also EMBL-EBI, Cambridge UK for the facilities offered to Dr Liakata.
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Ravenscroft, J., Liakata, M., Clare, A. (2013). Partridge: An Effective System for the Automatic Cassification of the Types of Academic Papers. In: Bramer, M., Petridis, M. (eds) Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXX. SGAI 2013. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02621-3_26
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