Thread by @JoelChan86

#Idea - NLP to do initial clustering/classification of altmetric-aggregated discussion of preprints, to facilitate finding high-signal discussions and critiques of preprints (honestly would want this for any paper!).

Preprint servers already hook into @altmetric to expose mentions of a paper in news/blogs + social media (tweets).

But it links to an undifferentiated list of sources (not titles, citation contexts) - good for signaling "attention", missed opportunity to get real context.

If preprint servers have access to commercial API from @altmetric, classifying (and then clustering, enabling searching by) these mentions is eminently doable (e.g., can frame as a straightforward citation context classification problem, like with @scite and @SemanticScholar)

Ideally this would be open, not gated.

Is anyone building this?