Recognizing sentences concerning future research from the full text of JASIST

ABSTRACT In the conclusion part of an academic paper, sentences concerning future research provide an outlook about future focus of research and reflect the latest development trend in a specific topic or field. These sentences are of high value for further investigation. However, very little has been done on sentences talking about future research in academic full texts. Here, papers in JASIST were studied with respect to these sentences. Deep learning model was trained on articles containing sentences annotated as relating to “future research” by BERT model. The model capable of automatic extraction of such sentences from academic full texts was obtained. Later this model was verified on the unannotated corpus, which demonstrated good performance. Finally, clustering was performed for the extracted sentences. It was found by cluster analysis that the sentences concerning future research were divided into four types. Our findings provide support for classification of sentences concerning future research.