Joint Model Feature Regression and Topic Learning for Global Citation Recommendation

Abstract

Citation recommendation has gained increasing attention in recent years. In practice, researchers usually prefer to cite the most topic-relevant articles. Nevertheless, how to model the implicit correlations between topics and citations is still a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a novel citation recommendation model, called TopicCite, which mines such fine-grained correlations. We extract various citation features from citation network, and integrate the learning process of feature regression with topic modeling. At the recommendation stage, we expand the folding-in process by adding the topic influence of papers that correlated with user-provided information. TopicCite can also be considered a technique for extracting topic-related citation features from manually defined citation features, which can essentially improve the granularity of pre-extracted features. In addition, the unsupervised topic model is supervised and mutually reinforced by abundant citation features in TopicCite; thus, the proposed model can also extract more reliable topic distributions from citation data, which brings a new perspective to topic discovery on linked data. The experimental results on the AAN and DBLP datasets demonstrate that our model is competitive with the state-of-the-art methods.

Keywords

• Citation recommendation
• topic model
• feature regression