Recommending Related Papers Based on Digital Library Access Records

An important goal for digital libraries is to enable researchers to more easily explore related work. While citation data is often used as an indicator of relatedness, in this paper we demonstrate that digital access records (e.g. http-server logs) can be used as indicators as well. In particular, we show that measures based on co-access provide better coverage than co-citation, that they are available much sooner, and that they are more accurate for recent papers. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.7 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Digital Libraries; H.3.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Information Search and Retrieval General Terms: Algorithms, Experimentation

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Stefan Pohl, Filip Radlinski, Thorsten Joachims
• Keywords: CORR 2007, Digital Access Records, Digital Libraries, Education, Important Goal