Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Text and Citation Analysis for Scholarly Digital Libraries

In recent years, interest in scholarly publications in electronic forms has boomed, and several large-scale electronic digital libraries and citation indices are now used everyday by researchers. The fact that formal citation metrics have become an increasingly large factor in decision-making by universities and funding bodies worldwide makes the need for research in such topics and for better methods for measuring the impact of work more pressing. Current digital libraries collect and allow access to digital papers and their metadata (including citations), but largely do not attempt to analyze the items they collect. The goal of this workshop is to investigate how developments in natural language processing and information retrieval techniques can advance the state-of-the-art in scholarly document understanding, analysis and retrieval.