I Don't Think We've Met: Encouraging Collaboration via Topic-Based Search

Methven, Thomas S.; Padilla, Stefano; Chantler, Mike J.

Abstract

We present PaperPilot1 (bit.ly/paperpilot) a new tool which performs smart collaborator search using research concepts automatically extracted from the CSCW domain, as characterized by 5,516 papers taken from four conferences in the area. PaperPilot infers how a paragraph of text (say an abstract or news article) relates to these research concepts and uses this information to retrieve the 100 most similar papers and identify the most relevant topic for each. These topics can be used both to obtain a quick overview of the papers and as an ice breaker for opening conversations with potential collaborators. To ensure the smart collaborator search is relevant to CSCW 2015 attendees, all accepted papers and authors will also be included.

Citation

Methven, T. S., Padilla, S., & Chantler, M. J. (2015, March). I Don't Think We've Met: Encouraging Collaboration via Topic-Based Search. Presented at 18th ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Vancouver, BC, Canada

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 18th ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
• Start Date: Mar 14, 2015
• End Date: Mar 18, 2015
• Acceptance Date: Feb 28, 2015
• Publication Date: Feb 28, 2015
• Deposit Date: Oct 23, 2018
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 29-32
• Book Title: CSCW'15 Companion Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing
• ISBN: 9781450329460
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2685553.2702678
• Keywords: Authors, Break the ice, Collaboration, Icebreaker, Natural language processing, Topic modelling, Topic-based search, Visualization,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1320892