Recommendation on Academic Networks using Direction Aware Citation Analysis
This work addresses the challenge of finding relevant academic papers efficiently for researchers, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing citation-based methods.
The authors tackled the problem of academic literature search by proposing direction-aware paper recommendation algorithms using citation information, which can be tuned to find recent or traditional papers and refined with user feedback, achieving efficiency improvements as demonstrated through comparisons with multiple baselines.
The literature search has always been an important part of an academic research. It greatly helps to improve the quality of the research process and output, and increase the efficiency of the researchers in terms of their novel contribution to science. As the number of published papers increases every year, a manual search becomes more exhaustive even with the help of today's search engines since they are not specialized for this task. In academics, two relevant papers do not always have to share keywords, cite one another, or even be in the same field. Although a well-known paper is usually an easy pray in such a hunt, relevant papers using a different terminology, especially recent ones, are not obvious to the eye. In this work, we propose paper recommendation algorithms by using the citation information among papers. The proposed algorithms are direction aware in the sense that they can be tuned to find either recent or traditional papers. The algorithms require a set of papers as input and recommend a set of related ones. If the user wants to give negative or positive feedback on the suggested paper set, the recommendation is refined. The search process can be easily guided in that sense by relevance feedback. We show that this slight guidance helps the user to reach a desired paper in a more efficient way. We adapt our models and algorithms also for the venue and reviewer recommendation tasks. Accuracy of the models and algorithms is thoroughly evaluated by comparison with multiple baselines and algorithms from the literature in terms of several objectives specific to citation, venue, and reviewer recommendation tasks. All of these algorithms are implemented within a publicly available web-service framework (http://theadvisor.osu.edu/) which currently uses the data from DBLP and CiteSeer to construct the proposed citation graph.