Capturing interdisciplinarity in academic abstracts


Nanni, Federico ; Dietz, Laura ; Faralli, Stefano ; Glavaš, Goran ; Ponzetto, Simone Paolo



DOI: https://doi.org/10.1045/september2016-nanni
URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september16/nanni/09nanni...
Additional URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september16/nanni/09nanni...
Document Type: Article
Year of publication: 2016
The title of a journal, publication series: D-Lib Magazine
Volume: 22
Issue number: 9/10
Page range: [Article 9]
Place of publication: [Reston, VA]
Publishing house: Corporation for National Research Initiatives
ISSN: 1082-9873
Publication language: English
Institution: School of Business Informatics and Mathematics > Information Systems III: Enterprise Data Analysis (Ponzetto 2016-)
Subject: 004 Computer science, internet
020 Library and information sciences
Keywords (English): Interdisciplinarity ; Text Classification ; Scientometrics ; Tool Criticism
Abstract: In this work we investigate the effectiveness of different text mining methods for the task of automated identification of interdisciplinary doctoral dissertations, considering solely the content of their abstracts. In contrast to previous attempts, we frame the interdisciplinarity detection as a two step classification process: we first predict the main discipline of the dissertation using a supervised multi-class classifier and then exploit the distribution of prediction confidences of the first classifier as input for the binary classification of interdisciplinarity. For both supervised classification models we experiment with several different sets of features ranging from standard lexical features such as TF-IDF weighted vectors over topic modelling distributions to latent semantic textual representations known as word embeddings. In contrast to previous findings, our experimental results suggest that interdisciplinarity is better detected when directly using textual features than when inferring from the results of main discipline classification.
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