Link prediction in paper citation network to construct paper correlation graph

• Published in: EURASIP journal on wireless communications and networking Vol. 2019; no. 1; pp. 1 - 12
• Main Authors: Liu, Hanwen, Kou, Huaizhen, Yan, Chao, Qi, Lianyong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 16.10.2019; Springer Nature B.V; SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Authors’ information; Citation analysis; Communications Engineering; Correlation; Engineering; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Keywords; Link prediction; Multi-modal Sensor Data Fusion in Internet of Things; Networks; Paper citation network; Paper correlated graph; Recommender systems; Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Time; User requirements; User satisfaction; Link prediction; Authors’ information; Time; Keywords; Paper correlated graph; Paper citation network
• ISSN: 1687-1499; 1687-1472; 1687-1499
• DOI: 10.1186/s13638-019-1561-7

Nowadays, recommender system has become one of the main tools to search for users’ interested papers. Since one paper often contains only a part of keywords that a user is interested in, recommender system returns a set of papers that satisfy the user’s need of keywords. Besides, to satisfy the users’ requirements of further research on a certain domain, the recommended papers must be correlated. However, each paper of an existing paper citation network hardly has cited relationships with others, so the correlated links among papers are very sparse. In addition, while a mass of research approaches have been put forward in terms of link prediction to address the network sparsity problems, these approaches have no relationship with the effect of self-citations and the potential correlations among papers (i.e., these correlated relationships are not included in the paper citation network as their published time is close). Therefore, we propose a link prediction approach that combines time, keywords, and authors’ information and optimizes the existing paper citation network. Finally, a number of experiments are performed on the real-world Hep-Th datasets. The experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of our proposal and achieve good performance.