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  <Title>A Design Methodology for a Biomedical Literature Indexing Tool Using the Rhetoric of Science</Title>
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4 Conclusions and Future Work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The purposeful nature of citation function is a feature of scientific writing which can be exploited in a variety of ways. We anticipate more-informative citation indexes as well as more-intelligent database curation. Additionally, sophisticated information extraction may be enhanced when better selection of the dataset is enabled. For example, synonym detection in a corpus of papers may be made more tractable when the corpus is comprised of related papers derived from navigating a space of linked citations.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In this paper we have motivated our approach to developing a literature-indexing tool that computes the functions of citations. We have proposed that the function of a citation may be determined by analyzing the rhetorical intent of the text that surrounds it. This analysis is founded on the guiding principle that the scientific method is intrinsic to scientific writing.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Our early investigations have determined that linguistic cues and citations are related in important ways. Our future work will be to map these linguistic cues to rhetorical relations and other pragmatic functions so that this information can then be used to determine the purpose of citations.</Paragraph>
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