Moreover, scientific citations are amongst the worst candidates for sentiment analysis since authors often express no sentiment about cited papers at all, and often prefer to use dry, neutral tones when describing a paper's shortcomings.
You might need both general intelligence and a deep knowledge of the field to conclude an author noting that X discovered Y on the assumption of Z is not a neutral description but a stark emphasis of their differences, or possibly even straw-manning the original paper.
You might need both general intelligence and a deep knowledge of the field to conclude an author noting that X discovered Y on the assumption of Z is not a neutral description but a stark emphasis of their differences, or possibly even straw-manning the original paper.