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This paper [1] aims for a related goal: automatically parsing the argumentative function of citations ("citation frames").

[1] Jurgens, D., Kumar, S., Hoover, R., McFarland, D., & Jurafsky, D. (2018). Measuring the evolution of a scientific field through citation frames. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 6, 391-406.