Exploring a world of networked information built from free-text metadata
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This document summarizes a presentation about exploring topics through networked information extracted from free-text metadata. It describes challenges in exploring topics and related aspects. It then demonstrates an online interface called Ariadne that addresses these challenges by generating semantic representations of entities from a large dataset and identifying nearest neighbors and related entities through multidimensional scaling. Finally, it discusses potential applications of this approach and references related work.
![Build semantic representation
• Basic assumptions
– Entities can be represented by its context
– Entities which share more context are more likely
to be related
• Context is the textual environment where an
entity occurs
• The effects of state prekindergarten programs on young
children’s school readiness in five states
• [author:jung kwanghee]
• [subject:readiness for school]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/elag-150611131217-lva1-app6892/85/Exploring-a-world-of-networked-information-built-from-free-text-metadata-8-320.jpg)
Exploring a world of networked information built from free-text metadata
- 1. Shenghui Wang Rob Koopman Exploring a world of networked information built from free-text metadata OCLC Research EMEA ELAG2015
- 2. What would you do if you are interested in a topic?
- 5. Difficult to answer these questions: • What are the different aspects of this topic? • Are there related aspects missing in my search terms? • Who are the most prominent authors about this topic? • Which journals publish most about this topic? • How have others — e.g. librarians — described and classified this topic?
- 7. How do we do this? • OFFLINE: generates a semantic representation for each entity • ONLINE: finds the most related entities and using multidimensional scaling to display
- 8. Build semantic representation • Basic assumptions – Entities can be represented by its context – Entities which share more context are more likely to be related • Context is the textual environment where an entity occurs • The effects of state prekindergarten programs on young children’s school readiness in five states • [author:jung kwanghee] • [subject:readiness for school]
- 9. Dataset ● ArticleFirst, 65 million articles ● Selected 4 million entities (topical terms, authors, ISSNs, Dewey decimal codes) ● Represented by 1 million topical terms But a matrix of 4M x 1M is too big to process
- 10. Dimension reduction based on Random Projection C: a co-occurrence matrix R: a random matrix of +/-1 C’: approximation of C after random projection -- Semantic matrix
- 11. Online interface • Find mutual nearest neighbors • Use multidimensional scaling to display
- 15. Possible applications • Explorative interface • Context based search: – brain • Journal finder – Arctic ice journals – http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/ • Author name disambiguation – pre kindergarten
- 16. Context matters! • What does “young” mean in - AritcleFirst - WorldCat - Astrophysics - Art
- 17. Ariadne (demo) http://thoth.pica.nl/relate • An extremely fast way of navigating large scale hetereogeneous entities • Generalisable to different datasets – Full WorldCat – Small but highly curated astrophysics dataset • Supports explorative information retrieval and entity disambiguation
- 18. References • Koopman, Rob, and Shenghui Wang. 2014. “Where Should I Publish? Detecting Journal Similarity Based on What Has Been Published There.” In Proceedings of Digital Libraries 2014, 483–484. London, United Kingdom. Association for Computing Machinery. Paper, Poster • Koopman, Rob, Shenghui Wang, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Gwenn Englebienne. 2015. “Ariadne’s Thread — Interactive Navigation in a World of Networked Information”. In CHI '15 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, Seoul, South Korea. Paper, Poster • Koopman, Rob, Shenghui Wang and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2015. “Contextualization of topics - browsing through terms, authors, journals and cluster allocations”. In Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics. Istanbul, Turkey. Paper
- 19. Explore. Share. Magnify. Thank you Shenghui Wang Rob Koopman OCLC Research EMEA shenghui.wang@oclc.org rob.koopman@oclc.org