How does a piece of unreliable code affect its citing publications? An argumentation analysis

Zheng, Heng; Fu, Yuanxi; Schneider, Jodi

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Title

How does a piece of unreliable code affect its citing publications? An argumentation analysis

Author(s)

• Zheng, Heng
• Fu, Yuanxi
• Schneider, Jodi

Issue Date

2024-05-25

Keyword(s)

• scientific publications
• arguments
• unreliability propagation
• defeasible reasoning
• argumentation in natural language

Abstract

With the help of argument graphs, we study how citing questionable sources impacts publications. As a case study, we examined a computational chemistry protocol that had a code glitch. We present an argument graph that represents the protocol as arguments and the code glitch as an attack. We identified 288 publications that cited the protocol and determined how many were potentially affected by the code glitch using the argument graph. Our findings illustrate a practical application of argument graphs. In future work, we will use argument mining to scale our approach to support knowledge maintenance in digital libraries.

Type of Resource

• still image
• text

Language

eng

Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation G-2022-19409

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