Lexical and Syntactic cues to identify Reference Scope of Citance

In this paper, we present our system addressing Task 1 of CL-SciSumm Shared Task at BIRNDL 2016. Our system makes use of lexical and syntactic dependency cues, and applies rule-based approach to extract text spans in the Reference Paper that accurately reflect the citances. Further, we make use of lexical cues to identify discourse facets of the paper to which cited text belongs. The lexical and syntactic cues are obtained on pre-processed text of the citances, and the reference paper. We report our results obtained for development set using our system for identifying reference scope of citances in this paper.