Research paper recommender system based on public contextual metadata

Abstract

Due to the exponential increase in research papers on a daily basis, finding and accessing related academic documents over the Internet is monotonous. One of the leading approaches was the use of recommendation systems to proactively recommend scholarly papers to individual researchers. The primary drawback to these methods, however, is that their success depends on user profile information and is therefore unable to provide useful suggestions to the new user. In addition, both the public and the non-public used descriptive metadata are used. The scope of the recommendation is therefore limited to a number of documents which are either publicly available or which are granted copyright permits. In alleviating the above problems, we proposed an alternative approach using public contextual metadata for an independent framework that customizes scholarly papers, regardless of the research field and user expertise. Experimental tests have shown significant improvements over other baseline methods.