A study of lexical distribution in citation contexts through the IMRaD standard

International audiencen this paper we present a large-scale approach for the extraction of verbs in reference contexts. We analyze citation contexts in relation with the IMRaD structure of scientific articles and use rank correlation analysis to characterize the distances between the section types. The results show strong differences in the verb frequencies around citations between the sections in the IMRaD structure. This study is a ”one-more-step” towards the lexical and semantic analysis of citation contexts