Publication Type
Conference Paper
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
10-2011
Abstract
Social tags and citing documents are two forms of social annotations to scientific publications. These social annotations provide useful contextual and temporal information for the annotated work, which encapsulates the attention and interest of the annotators. In this work, we explore the use of social annotations for discovering trends in scientific publications. We propose a trend discovery process that employs trend estimation and trend selection and ranking for analyzing the emerging trends shown in the social annotation profiles. The proposed sigmoid trend estimator allows us to characterize and compare how much, when and how fast the trends emerge. To perform topic-specific trend analysis, we further adopt topic modeling on the annotation content to decapsulate the multitude of impact created by the annotated work.
Keywords
Social annotations, Temporal profiles, Emerging trends
Discipline
Databases and Information Systems | Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
Publication
Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval 5th HCIR 2011, October 20
First Page
1
Last Page
4
City or Country
Mountain View, CA
Citation
HU, Meiqun; LIM, Ee Peng; and JIANG, Jing.
Using social annotations for trend discovery in scientific publications. (2011). Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval 5th HCIR 2011, October 20. 1-4.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1461
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