Scholar2vec: Vector Representation of Scholars for Lifetime Collaborator Prediction

Wei Wang, Feng Xia, Jian Wu, Zhiguo Gong, Hanghang Tong, Brian D. Davison

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Abstract

While scientific collaboration is critical for a scholar, some collaborators can be more significant than others, e.g., lifetime collaborators. It has been shown that lifetime collaborators are more influential on a scholar's academic performance. However, little research has been done on investigating predicting such special relationships in academic networks. To this end, we propose Scholar2vec, a novel neural network embedding for representing scholar profiles. First, our approach creates scholars' research interest vector from textual information, such as demographics, research, and influence. After bridging research interests with a collaboration network, vector representations of scholars can be gained with graph learning. Meanwhile, since scholars are occupied with various attributes, we propose to incorporate four types of scholar attributes for learning scholar vectors. Finally, the early-stage similarity sequence based on Scholar2vec is used to predict lifetime collaborators with machine learning methods. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets show that Scholar2vec outperforms state-of-the-art methods in lifetime collaborator prediction. Our work presents a new way to measure the similarity between two scholars by vector representation, which tackles the knowledge between network embedding and academic relationship mining.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number40
JournalACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
Volume15
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2021

Keywords

  • Network embedding
  • academic information retrieval
  • graph learning
  • scientific collaboration

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science

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