Semantic Similarity versus Co-Authorship Networks: A Detailed Comparison

Ionut Cristian Paraschiv, Mihai Dascalu, Stefan Trausan-Matu, Nicolae Nistor, Ambar Murillo Montes De Oca, Danielle McNamara

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Abstract

Whether interested in personal work, in learning about trending topics, or in finding the structure of a specific domain, individuals' work of staying up-to-date has become more and more difficult due to the increasing information overflow. In our previous work our focus has been to create a semantic annotation model accompanied by dedicated views to explore the semantic similarities between scientific articles. This paper focuses on applying our approach on a dataset of 519 project proposal abstracts, with the intention to bring value to the current indexation methodologies that rely primarily on co-citations and keyword matching. Our experiment uses various Social Network Analysis metrics to compare the rankings generated by two complementary models relying on semantic similarity and co-authorship networks. The two models are statistically different based on representative project associations, are significantly correlated in terms of project rankings by eccentricity and closeness centrality, and the semantic similarity network is denser.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2017 21st International Conference on Control Systems and Computer, CSCS 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages566-570
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781538618394
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 5 2017
Event21st International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, CSCS 2017 - Bucharest
Duration: May 29 2017May 31 2017

Other

Other21st International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, CSCS 2017
CityBucharest
Period5/29/175/31/17

Keywords

  • Co-authorship networks
  • Discourse analysis
  • Semantic similarity
  • Social network analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science (miscellaneous)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Control and Optimization
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Hardware and Architecture

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