bulletin - CiteSeerX Beta

Re: CiteSeerX Beta

Jim Van Zandt — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:26:13 GMT

bibtex entries are not very useful if they only have the author's name. citeseer had much more complete entries. Why the regression? Can the citeseer implementation be added to citeseerx?

Re: CiteSeerX Beta

Francesco — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:39:25 GMT

hi everybody who's working at citeseerX. i agree about the division of self citations from others citations. furthermore, i'd like to ask one thing i don't understand. if I search for "statecharts" i find a bunch of resulting papers. if i click on "on the semantics of statecharts" (the first one, for an example) i can see among the cited articles and books the entry "Statecharts: A visual formalism for complex systems" (the first one) and from there i can see how many articles cited "Statecharts: A visual formalism for complex systems". but what if i search directly "Statecharts: A visual formalism for complex systems"? i can't find any result! i tried including citations in the search, and also i tried the advanced search, without getting any result. is this a normal behavior?!? thanks for the attention

Re: CiteSeerX Beta

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:26:03 GMT

Hi Isaac,

I don't know what has happened to the BibTeX data, but their quality is much worse than before the "X" upgrade. Often, fields are missing and the respective data is merged into other fields. For example (CiteseerX):
@MISC{Brown_,
author = {Duane C. Brown},
title = {},
year = {}
}
Old Citeseer (from Google cache, which is fortunately still working):
@article{ brown71closerange,
author = "D. C. Brown",
title = "Close-range camera calibration",
journal = "Photogrammetric Engineering",
volume = "37",
pages = "855--866",
year = "1971",
url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/583868.html"}

You should really do something about this!

Best regards,
Thomas Stehle