research trend mining method

Abstract: As information technology progress, we are able to obtain much information about the advanced research of others. As a result, researchers and research managers need to track the current research trends amid the information flood. In order to support these efforts to gather knowledge of current research, we propose a research trend mining method. The method utilizes an author-topic model for establishing the relationships between authors, topics, and papers by probabilities, and interactively visualizes the relationships using self-organizing maps. We implemented a research area mapping system and validated it with a case study. In addition, we conducted experiments to show the performance of our system. The experimental results indicate that this system can induce the appropriate relationships for finding research trends.

 Data mining;  INFORMATION technology;  citation analysis;  SOM;  author-topic model;  probablistic approach;  self-organizing maps;  self-organising feature maps;  research area mapping system;  research trend mining method;  

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