2019-03-27: Install ParsCit on Ubuntu
ParsCit is a citation parser developed by a joint effort of Pennsylvania State University and National University of Singapore. Over the past ten years, it is been compared with many other citation parsing tools and is still widely used. Although Neural ParsCit has been developed, the implementation is still not as easy to use as ParsCit. In particular, PDFMEF encapsules ParsCit as the default citation parser. However, many people found that installing ParsCit is not very straightforward. This is partially because it is written in perl and the instructions on the ParsCit website are not 100% accurate. In this blog post, I describe the installation procedures of ParsCit on a Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS desktop. Installation on CentOS should be similar. The instructions do not cover Windows. The following steps assume we install ParsCit under /home/username/github. Download the source code from https://github.com/knmnyn/ParsCit and unzip it. $ unzip ParsCit-master.zip Install c++ compiler