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# Extraction of Cited Concepts
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| Property  | Description |
| --- | --- |
| Short description  | Scans the plaintexts of publications for cited concepts, currently for references to datasets and software URIs. |
| Authority  | ATHENA Research Center, Greece  |
| Licence  | CC-BY/CC-0  |
| Algorithmic details | The algorithm extracts citations to specific datasets and software. It extracts the citation section of a publication's fulltext and applies string matching against a target database which includes an inverted index with dataset/software titles, urls and other metadata. |
| Parameters | Title, URL, creator names, publisher names and publication year for each concept to create the target database. Identifier and publication's fulltext to extract the cited concepts. |
| Limitations | N/A |
| Code repository | https://github.com/openaire/iis/tree/master/iis-wf/iis-wf-referenceextraction/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/iis/wf/referenceextraction |
| Environment | Python, madIS (https://github.com/madgik/madis), APSW (https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw) |
| References & resources | [Foufoulas Y., Stamatogiannakis L., Dimitropoulos H., Ioannidis Y. (2017) “High-Pass Text Filtering for Citation Matching”. In: Kamps J., Tsakonas G., Manolopoulos Y., Iliadis L., Karydis I. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10450. Springer, Cham.](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67008-9_28) |






