CiteAssist: A System for Automated Preprint Citation and BibTeX Generation

Lars Kaesberg, Terry Ruas, Jan Philip Wahle, Bela Gipp


Abstract
We present CiteAssist, a system to automate the generation of BibTeX entries for preprints, streamlining the process of bibliographic annotation. Our system extracts metadata, such as author names, titles, publication dates, and keywords, to create standardized annotations within the document. CiteAssist automatically attaches the BibTeX citation to the end of a PDF and links it on the first page of the document so other researchers gain immediate access to the correct citation of the article. This method promotes platform flexibility by ensuring that annotations remain accessible regardless of the repository used to publish or access the preprint. The annotations remain available even if the preprint is viewed externally to CiteAssist. Additionally, the system adds relevant related papers based on extracted keywords to the preprint, providing researchers with additional publications besides those in related work for further reading. Researchers can enhance their preprints organization and reference management workflows through a free and publicly available web interface.
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2024.sdp-1.10
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2024)
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August
Year:
2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Tirthankar Ghosal, Amanpreet Singh, Anita Waard, Philipp Mayr, Aakanksha Naik, Orion Weller, Yoonjoo Lee, Shannon Shen, Yanxia Qin
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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105–119
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.sdp-1.10
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Cite (ACL):
Lars Kaesberg, Terry Ruas, Jan Philip Wahle, and Bela Gipp. 2024. CiteAssist: A System for Automated Preprint Citation and BibTeX Generation. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2024), pages 105–119, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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CiteAssist: A System for Automated Preprint Citation and BibTeX Generation (Kaesberg et al., sdp-WS 2024)
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