[AISWorld] RefSeer: Citation Recommendation System

[Ilia Bider]

I wonder what is the purpose of this system?
Is it aimed at increasing the productivity of the academic paper writing 
machine?
What are side effects of using such a system on the quality?
Could it lead to suddenly some works being cited more than others but 
not based on their merits?
Could it lead to rocketing of the citation index for some works based on 
a positive feedback loop being created for them in such a system?

Any research, or a model on the topic?

Best regards

Ilia
On 2011-07-06 14:00, Lee Giles wrote:
> Apologies for any cross-postings.
>
> SYSTEM BETA RELEASE
>
> ===================
>
> REFSEER: Citation Recommendation based on Topic Modeling
> (http://refseer.ist.psu.edu)
>
> DESCRIPTION: RefSeer (http://refseer.ist.psu.edu), a beta release
> Citation
> Recommendation System, is hosted at the Pennsylvania State University.
> Given either text from an abstract/description or a pdf document of a
> paper
> or part of a paper, RefSeer recommends documents from the CiteSeerX
> repository
> as citations. RefSeer internally computes from the text a topical
> composition
> based on topic modeling. Based upon this composition, recommended
> citations for
> majority topics are ranked and shown in a faceted interface. Refseer
> uses documents
> in CiteSeerX for both its offline training and online recommendation.
> It is
> currently trained with over 1.5 million documents and new documents
> are added monthly in its citation database.
>
> CONTACT: Saurabh Kataria (skataria at ist.psu.edu); Prasenjit Mitra
> (pmitra at ist.psu.edu); C. Lee Giles (giles at ist.psu.edu)
>
>
>
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