Evaluate the collective function of references cited together in a given text segment.
Classify their combined role into one of the following categories: 'method', 'background', or 'result'.

Text:In accordance with this assumption, considering the different experiment results in literature [12] [11] [14], the first step of a domain independent extraction process is the elicitation of these concepts, which is carried out with the help of an algorithm using the wikipedia category system.
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