Citation Prediction in Heterogeneous Bibliographic Networks

To reveal information hiding in link space of bibliographical networks, link analysis has been studied from different perspectives in recent years. In this paper, we address a novel problem namely citation prediction, that is: given information about authors, topics, target publication venues as well as time of certain research paper, finding and predicting the citation relationship between a query paper and a set of previous papers. Considering the gigantic size of relevant papers, the loosely connected citation network structure as well as the highly skewed citation relation distribution, citation prediction is more challenging than other link prediction problems which have been studied before. By building a meta-path based prediction model on a topic discriminative search space, we here propose a two-phase citation probability learning approach, in order to predict citation relationship effectively and efficiently. Experiments are performed on real-world dataset with comprehensi...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2012
• Where: SDM
• Authors: Xiao Yu, Quanquan Gu, Mianwei Zhou, Jiawei Han
• Keywords: Citation Network, Data Mining, SDM 2012, Target Publication, World Dataset