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Chris Brockett
Data janitor and leftover linguist (retired). Tsundoku expert. Language & Cognition. NLP. Japanese literature. Anti-authoritarian. Pro-science.
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In NLP the fake citation crisis is fostered by the traditional conference paper format that calls for a related work section. Discussion in this section rarely contributes to the paper. A culture of fewer, but more organically chosen citations would go a long way to reducing the temptation to pad.