We study the interplay of the discourse struc-
ture of a scientic argument with formal ci-
tations. One subproblem of this is to clas-
sify academic citations in scientic articles ac-
cording to their rhetorical function, e.g., as a
rival approach, as a part of the solution, or
as a awed approach that justies the cur-
rent research. Here, we introduce our anno-
tation scheme with 12 categories, and present
an agreement study