Maheshwari Himanshu and Bhavyajeet Singh working under the supervision of Prof. Vasudeva Varma participated in a 3C shared task at Second Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing @ NAACL 2021. The shared task focuses on classifying citation context in research publications based on their influence and purpose. It consisted of two subtasks:

 Subtask A: A task for identifying the purpose of a citation. Multiclass classification of citations into one of six classes: Background, Uses, Compare_Contrast, Motivation, Extension, and Future.

Subtask B: A task for identifying the importance of a citation. Binary classification of citations into one of two classes: Incidental, and Influential.

 The model proposed by Maheshwari Himanshu and Bhavyajeet Singh was ranked number 1 for Subtask A and their macro F1 score was 0.26973. For Subtask B they were ranked number 2 and their macro F1 score is 0.59071 which is very close to the top team’s macro F1 score 0.60025.

Link to Shared task webpage – https://sdproc.org/2021/sharedtasks.html#3c