Joint Modeling of Topics, Citations, and Topical Authority in Academic Corpora

Much of scientific progress stems from previously published findings, but searching through the vast sea of scientific publications is difficult. We often rely on metrics of scholarly authority to find the prominent authors but these authority indices do not differentiate authority based on research topics. We present Latent Topical-Authority Indexing (LTAI) for jointly modeling the topics, citations, and topical authority in a corpus of academic papers. Compared to previous models, LTAI differs in two main aspects. First, it explicitly models the generative process of the citations, rather than treating the citations as given. Second, it models each author's influence on citations of a paper based on the topics of the cited papers, as well as the citing papers. We fit LTAI to four academic corpora: CORA, Arxiv Physics, PNAS, and Citeseer. We compare the performance of LTAI against various baselines, starting with the latent Dirichlet allocation, to the more advanced models including author-link topic model and dynamic author citation topic model. The results show that LTAI achieves improved accuracy over other similar models when predicting words, citations and authors of publications.Comment: Accepted by Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL); to appea

作者主题模型及其改进的方法与应用研究综述

[目的/意义]作者主题模型作为近年来计算机领域关注度较高的新型概率模型，在文本挖掘与自然语言处理等方向已有广泛应用。分析国内外作者主题模型及其改进的思路与应用，更好地把握其研究现状，以期为计算机、图书情报等相关领域科研人员提供参考。[方法/过程]本文选取Web of Science核心数据库、DBLP及中国知网（CNKI）数据库作为文献来源，通过制定检索规则、去重及人工判读等操作提炼出关于作者主题模型及其改进方法的文献集，从模型应用过程的视角，结合文献分析法对现有研究进行总结归纳。[结果/结论]通过分析发现，现有相关研究已形成较为完整的分析流程，且模型的改进角度、适用领域也日益多样化。但性能优化、模型评价指标的规范完善以及在图书情报领域的进一步应用等方面仍有待深入探索。</p

Joint Modeling of Topics, Citations, and Topical Authority in Academic Corpora

Much of scientific progress stems from previously published findings, but searching through the vast sea of scientific publications is difficult. We often rely on metrics of scholarly authority to find the prominent authors but these authority indices do not differentiate authority based on research topics. We present Latent Topical-Authority Indexing (LTAI) for jointly modeling the topics, citations, and topical authority in a corpus of academic papers. Compared to previous models, LTAI differs in two main aspects. First, it explicitly models the generative process of the citations, rather than treating the citations as given. Second, it models each author’s influence on citations of a paper based on the topics of the cited papers, as well as the citing papers. We fit LTAI into four academic corpora: CORA, Arxiv Physics, PNAS, and Citeseer. We compare the performance of LTAI against various baselines, starting with the latent Dirichlet allocation, to the more advanced models including author-link topic model and dynamic author citation topic model. The results show that LTAI achieves improved accuracy over other similar models when predicting words, citations and authors of publications.11

Study on open science: The general state of the play in Open Science principles and practices at European life sciences institutes

Nowadays, open science is a hot topic on all levels and also is one of the priorities of the European Research Area. Components that are commonly associated with open science are open access, open data, open methodology, open source, open peer review, open science policies and citizen science. Open science may a great potential to connect and influence the practices of researchers, funding institutions and the public. In this paper, we evaluate the level of openness based on public surveys at four European life sciences institute