System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Automated Factual Citation Detection

A method, system, and computer program product is provided for tokenizing document citations. The method may include tokenizing each string of a plurality of strings into at least one citation token representing at least one citation parameter, resulting in a plurality of citation tokens, grouping the plurality of citation tokens into a plurality of token groups, each token group of the plurality of token groups including at least one citation token representing a separate citation in the at least one textual document, assigning metadata to each token group of the plurality of token groups, and generating a normalized citation for each token group of the plurality of token groups based on the metadata.