Community Interest as An Indicator for Ranking

Ranking documents in response to users\u27 information needs is a challenging task, due, in part, to the dynamic nature of users\u27 interests with respect to a query. We hypothesize that the interests of a given user are similar to the interests of the broader community of which he or she is a part and propose an innovative method that uses social media to characterize the interests of the community and use this characterization to improve future rankings. By generating a community interest vector (CIV) and community interest language model (CILM) for a given query, we use community interest to alter the ranking score of individual documents retrieved by the query. The CIV or CILM is based on a continuously updated set of recent (daily or past few hours) user oriented text data. The interest based ranking method is evaluated by using Amazon Turk to against relevance based ranking and search engines\u27 ranking results. Overall, the experiment result shows community interest is an effective indicator for dynamic ranking

Citation recommendation via proximity full-text citation analysis and supervised topical prior

Currently the many publications are now available electronically and online, which has had a significant effect, while brought several challenges. With the objective to enhance citation recommendation based on innovative text and graph mining algorithms along with full-text citation analysis, we utilized proximity-based citation contexts extracted from a large number of full-text publications, and then used a publication/citation topic distribution to generate a novel citation graph to calculate the publication topical importance. The importance score can be utilized as a new means to enhance the recommendation performance. Experiment with full-text citation data showed that the novel method could significantly (p < 0.001) enhance citation recommendation performance

Neural Related Work Summarization with a Joint Context-driven Attention Mechanism

Conventional solutions to automatic related work summarization rely heavily on human-engineered features. In this paper, we develop a neural data-driven summarizer by leveraging the seq2seq paradigm, in which a joint context-driven attention mechanism is proposed to measure the contextual relevance within full texts and a heterogeneous bibliography graph simultaneously. Our motivation is to maintain the topic coherency between a related work section and its target document, where both the textual and graphic contexts play a big role in characterizing the relationship among scientific publications accurately. Experimental results on a large dataset show that our approach achieves a considerable improvement over a typical seq2seq summarizer and five classical summarization baselines.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures, in the Proceedings of EMNLP 201