A novel classification method for paper-reviewer recommendation

Reviewer recommendation problem in the research field usually refers to invite experts to comment on the quality of papers, proposals, etc. How to effectively and accurately recommend reviewers for the submitted papers and proposals is a meaningful and still tough task. At present, many unsupervised...

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Published in:Scientometrics 2018-06, Vol.115 (3), p.1293-1313
Main Authors: Zhao, Shu, Zhang, Dong, Duan, Zhen, Chen, Jie, Zhang, Yan-ping, Tang, Jie
Format: Article
Language:English
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Algorithms
Classification
Computer Science
Datasets
Embedding
Information processing
Information Storage and Retrieval
Library Science
Machine learning
Proposals
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Summary:Reviewer recommendation problem in the research field usually refers to invite experts to comment on the quality of papers, proposals, etc. How to effectively and accurately recommend reviewers for the submitted papers and proposals is a meaningful and still tough task. At present, many unsupervised recommendation methods have been researched to solve this task. In this paper, a novel classification method named Word Mover’s Distance–Constructive Covering Algorithm (WMD–CCA, for short) is proposed to solve the reviewer recommendation problem as a classification issue. A submission or a reviewer is described by some tags, such as keywords, research interests, and so on. First, the submission or the reviewer is represented as some vectors by a word embedding method. That is to say, each tag describing a submission or a reviewer is represented as a vector. Second, the Word Mover’s Distance (WMD, for short) method is used to measure the minimum distances between submissions and reviewers. Actually, the papers usually have research field information, and utilizing them well might improve the reviewer recommendation accuracy. So finally, the reviewer recommendation task is transformed into a classification problem which is solved by a supervised learning method- Constructive Covering Algorithm (CCA, for short). Comparative experiments are conducted with 4 public datasets and a synthetic dataset from Baidu Scholar, which show that the proposed method WMD–CCA effectively solves the reviewer recommendation task as a classification issue and improves the recommendation accuracy.
ISSN:0138-9130
1588-2861
DOI:10.1007/s11192-018-2726-6