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A citation recommendation model employing knowledge graph embedding

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Zafar Ali, Pavlos Kefalas, Guilin Qi, Sumaira Hussain, Shah Khalid, Adam A. Q. Mohammed, Aalia Malik, Inam Ullah

Soft Computing

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-025-10928-xOpenAlex: W7122550647
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Problems Identified (5)

Relevant Work Discovery Difficulty: The growth and topical diversity of scientific publications makes it difficult for researchers to locate truly relevant works.

Underused Heterogeneous Citation Network Structure: Existing citation recommendation models under-exploit the rich multi-relational structure of heterogeneous citation networks.

Weak Semantic Interaction Modeling: Existing models inadequately model semantic interactions among diverse entities.

Limited Recommendation Explainability: Existing citation recommendation models lack mechanisms to identify influential factors or provide transparent explanations.

Relevant Work Discovery Difficulty: The growth and topical diversity of scientific publications makes it difficult for researchers to locate truly relevant works.

Proposed Solutions (4)

CR-KGEB Citation Recommendation Framework: CR-KGEB is an encoder–decoder citation recommendation framework integrating RotatE knowledge-graph embeddings, SPECTER content representations, and a BiLSTM attention module over a k-partite graph.

Joint Signal Modeling with Attention: The method jointly models an author’s published articles, citation history, and candidate papers while dynamically weighting salient signals.

CR-KGEB Citation Recommendation Framework: CR-KGEB is an encoder–decoder citation recommendation framework integrating RotatE knowledge-graph embeddings, SPECTER content representations, and a BiLSTM attention module over a k-partite graph.

Joint Signal Modeling with Attention: The method jointly models an author’s published articles, citation history, and candidate papers while dynamically weighting salient signals.

Results (3)

Improved DBLP-V12 Recommendation Accuracy:

Improved DBLP-V13 Recommendation Accuracy:

Interpretable Recommendations:

Research Domain

citation recommendation / scholarly recommender systems

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