TechMiner: Extracting Technologies from Academic Publications

  • Francesco Osborne
  • Hélène de Ribaupierre
  • Enrico Motta
Conference paper
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 10024)

Abstract

In recent years we have seen the emergence of a variety of scholarly datasets. Typically these capture ‘standard’ scholarly entities and their connections, such as authors, affiliations, venues, publications, citations, and others. However, as the repositories grow and the technology improves, researchers are adding new entities to these repositories to develop a richer model of the scholarly domain. In this paper, we introduce TechMiner, a new approach, which combines NLP, machine learning and semantic technologies, for mining technologies from research publications and generating an OWL ontology describing their relationships with other research entities. The resulting knowledge base can support a number of tasks, such as: richer semantic search, which can exploit the technology dimension to support better retrieval of publications; richer expert search; monitoring the emergence and impact of new technologies, both within and across scientific fields; studying the scholarly dynamics associated with the emergence of new technologies; and others. TechMiner was evaluated on a manually annotated gold standard and the results indicate that it significantly outperforms alternative NLP approaches and that its semantic features improve performance significantly with respect to both recall and precision.

Keywords

Scholarly data Ontology learning Bibliographic data Scholarly ontologies Data mining 
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Acknowledgements

We thank Elsevier for providing us with access to the Scopus repository of scholarly data. We also acknowledge grant n° 159047 from the Swiss National Foundation.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Francesco Osborne
    • 1
  • Hélène de Ribaupierre
    • 1
    • 2
  • Enrico Motta
    • 1
    • 2
  1. 1.Knowledge Media InstituteThe Open UniversityMilton KeynesUK
  2. 2.Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK

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