scholarly journals Evolution of research topics in LIS between 1996 and 2019: an analysis based on latent Dirichlet allocation topic model

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (3) ◽  
pp. 2561-2595
Author(s):  
Xiaoyao Han
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Topic Model ◽  
Text Processing ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Processing Information ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Dirichlet Allocation

AbstractThis study investigated the evolution of library and information science (LIS) by analyzing research topics in LIS journal articles. The analysis is divided into five periods covering the years 1996–2019. Latent Dirichlet allocation modeling was used to identify underlying topics based on 14,035 documents. An improved data-selection method was devised in order to generate a dynamic journal list that included influential journals for each period. Results indicate that (a) library science has become less prevalent over time, as there are no top topic clusters relevant to library issues since the period 2000–2005; (b) bibliometrics, especially citation analysis, is highly stable across periods, as reflected by the stable subclusters and consistent keywords; and (c) information retrieval has consistently been the dominant domain with interests gradually shifting to model-based text processing. Information seeking and behavior is also a stable field that tends to be dispersed among various topics rather than presented as its own subject. Information systems and organizational activities have been continuously discussed and have developed a closer relationship with e-commerce. Topics that occurred only once have undergone a change of technological context from the networks and Internet to social media and mobile applications.

Discovering research topics from library electronic references using latent Dirichlet allocation

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 400-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debin Fang ◽  
Haixia Yang ◽  
Baojun Gao ◽  
Xiaojun Li
Keyword(s):  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Lower Cost ◽  
Topic Model ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
Latent Topic ◽  
Automatic Text Analysis ◽  
Automatic Text ◽  
Dirichlet Allocation

Purpose Discovering the research topics and trends from a large quantity of library electronic references is essential for scientific research. Current research of this kind mainly depends on human justification. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to identify research topics and evolution in trends from library electronic references efficiently and effectively by employing automatic text analysis algorithms. Design/methodology/approach The authors used the latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), a probabilistic generative topic model to extract the latent topic from the large quantity of research abstracts. Then, the authors conducted a regression analysis on the document-topic distributions generated by LDA to identify hot and cold topics. Findings First, this paper discovers 32 significant research topics from the abstracts of 3,737 articles published in the six top accounting journals during the period of 1992-2014. Second, based on the document-topic distributions generated by LDA, the authors identified seven hot topics and six cold topics from the 32 topics. Originality/value The topics discovered by LDA are highly consistent with the topics identified by human experts, indicating the validity and effectiveness of the methodology. Therefore, this paper provides novel knowledge to the accounting literature and demonstrates a methodology and process for topic discovery with lower cost and higher efficiency than the current methods.

scholarly journals Joint Modeling of Topics, Citations, and Topical Authority in Academic Corpora

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 191-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jooyeon Kim ◽  
Dongwoo Kim ◽  
Alice Oh
Keyword(s):  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Topic Model ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Joint Modeling ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Generative Process ◽  
Author Citation ◽  
Improved Accuracy ◽  
Dirichlet Allocation

Much of scientific progress stems from previously published findings, but searching through the vast sea of scientific publications is difficult. We often rely on metrics of scholarly authority to find the prominent authors but these authority indices do not differentiate authority based on research topics. We present Latent Topical-Authority Indexing (LTAI) for jointly modeling the topics, citations, and topical authority in a corpus of academic papers. Compared to previous models, LTAI differs in two main aspects. First, it explicitly models the generative process of the citations, rather than treating the citations as given. Second, it models each author’s influence on citations of a paper based on the topics of the cited papers, as well as the citing papers. We fit LTAI into four academic corpora: CORA, Arxiv Physics, PNAS, and Citeseer. We compare the performance of LTAI against various baselines, starting with the latent Dirichlet allocation, to the more advanced models including author-link topic model and dynamic author citation topic model. The results show that LTAI achieves improved accuracy over other similar models when predicting words, citations and authors of publications.

scholarly journals Intelligent radar software defect classification approach based on the latent Dirichlet allocation topic model

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Liu ◽  
Yongfeng Yin ◽  
Haifeng Li ◽  
Jiabin Chen ◽  
Chang Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Topic Model ◽  
Recall Rate ◽  
Defect Classification ◽  
Software Defects ◽  
Classification Approach ◽  
Software Defect ◽  
Model Combining ◽  
Dirichlet Allocation

AbstractExisting software intelligent defect classification approaches do not consider radar characters and prior statistics information. Thus, when applying these appaoraches into radar software testing and validation, the precision rate and recall rate of defect classification are poor and have effect on the reuse effectiveness of software defects. To solve this problem, a new intelligent defect classification approach based on the latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic model is proposed for radar software in this paper. The proposed approach includes the defect text segmentation algorithm based on the dictionary of radar domain, the modified LDA model combining radar software requirement, and the top acquisition and classification approach of radar software defect based on the modified LDA model. The proposed approach is applied on the typical radar software defects to validate the effectiveness and applicability. The application results illustrate that the prediction precison rate and recall rate of the poposed approach are improved up to 15 ~ 20% compared with the other defect classification approaches. Thus, the proposed approach can be applied in the segmentation and classification of radar software defects effectively to improve the identifying adequacy of the defects in radar software.

scholarly journals Modeling Research Topics for Artificial Intelligence Applications in Medicine: Latent Dirichlet Allocation Application Study

10.2196/15511 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. e15511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bach Xuan Tran ◽  
Son Nghiem ◽  
Oz Sahin ◽  
Tuan Manh Vu ◽  
Giang Hai Ha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Precision Medicine ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Dirichlet Allocation

Background Artificial intelligence (AI)–based technologies develop rapidly and have myriad applications in medicine and health care. However, there is a lack of comprehensive reporting on the productivity, workflow, topics, and research landscape of AI in this field. Objective This study aimed to evaluate the global development of scientific publications and constructed interdisciplinary research topics on the theory and practice of AI in medicine from 1977 to 2018. Methods We obtained bibliographic data and abstract contents of publications published between 1977 and 2018 from the Web of Science database. A total of 27,451 eligible articles were analyzed. Research topics were classified by latent Dirichlet allocation, and principal component analysis was used to identify the construct of the research landscape. Results The applications of AI have mainly impacted clinical settings (enhanced prognosis and diagnosis, robot-assisted surgery, and rehabilitation), data science and precision medicine (collecting individual data for precision medicine), and policy making (raising ethical and legal issues, especially regarding privacy and confidentiality of data). However, AI applications have not been commonly used in resource-poor settings due to the limit in infrastructure and human resources. Conclusions The application of AI in medicine has grown rapidly and focuses on three leading platforms: clinical practices, clinical material, and policies. AI might be one of the methods to narrow down the inequality in health care and medicine between developing and developed countries. Technology transfer and support from developed countries are essential measures for the advancement of AI application in health care in developing countries.

The surveillance of a supreme audit institution on related party transactions

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 577-603
Author(s):  
Gustavo Cesário ◽  
Ricardo Lopes Cardoso ◽  
Renato Santos Aranha
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Topic Model ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Related Party Transactions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Audit Reports ◽  
Dirichlet Allocation

PurposeThis paper aims to analyse how the supreme audit institution (SAI) monitors related party transactions (RPTs) in the Brazilian public sector. It considers definitions and disclosure policies of RPTs by international accounting and auditing standards and their evolution since 1980.Design/methodology/approachBased on archival research on international standards and using an interpretive approach, the authors investigated definitions and disclosure policies. Using a topic model based on latent Dirichlet allocation, the authors performed a content analysis on over 59,000 SAI decisions to assess how the SAI monitors RPTs.FindingsThe SAI investigates nepotism (a kind of RPT) and conflicts of interest up to eight times more frequently than related parties. Brazilian laws prevent nepotism and conflicts of interest, but not RPTs in general. Indeed, Brazilian public-sector accounting standards have not converged towards IPSAS 20, and ISSAI 1550 does not adjust auditing procedures to suit the public sector.Research limitations/implicationsThe SAI follows a legalistic auditing approach, indicating a need for regulation of related public-sector parties to improve surveillance. In addition to Brazil, other code law countries might face similar circumstances.Originality/valuePublic-sector RPTs are an under-investigated field, calling for attention by academics and standard-setters. Text mining and latent Dirichlet allocation, while mature techniques, are underexplored in accounting and auditing studies. Additionally, the Python script created to analyse the audit reports is available at Mendeley Data and may be used to perform similar analyses with minor adaptations.

scholarly journals On the evolution of library and information science doctoral dissertation topics in China

2020 ◽  
pp. 096100062094857 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanhui Song ◽  
Li Zhu ◽  
Fei Shu
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations ◽  
Doctoral Advisors

Previous studies have presented a radical change in library and information science research topics in North America. This article investigates library and information science doctoral dissertations in China in terms of their topics and interdisciplinarity in the past 20 years. The results do not find a significant change in library and information science dissertation topics in China but reveal that the increase of library and information science doctoral research in the area of information science is attributed to an increase in admissions to Information Science majors compared to other majors (Library Science and Archive Studies). This study also shows that the academic background of library and information science doctoral advisors does not affect the interdisciplinarity of their students’ doctoral dissertations in China.

Analyzing Research Fronts in Medical Informatics Field Based on Topic Model and Life Cycle Theory

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Feng ◽  
Xiaomin Mu ◽  
Fangfang Li ◽  
Yong Shen ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Topic Model ◽  
Research Front ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Life Cycle Theory ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Research Fronts

Abstract Background: Medical informatics (MI) is a multidisciplinary field in which researchers pursue scientific exploration, problem-solving, and decision-making to facilitate the effective use of biomedical data, information and knowledge for the improvement of human health. The purpose of this study is to identify research fronts in the field of MI and ultimately elucidate research activities and trends in this field. Methods: This study used topic model to identify research topics in the field of MI based on the latent Dirichlet allocation method (LDA). And the topic cloud is utilized to visualize the research topics. For identifying the research front topics, we proposed the indicators of identifying research front topics. In addition, we investigated how front topics change over time, and divided them into five categories based on the life cycle theory. Results: The data were collected from 35981 published journal abstracts between 2007 and 2016. In the topic distribution of MI, we found that the scope of MI related research has become increasingly interdisciplinary, particular for medical data analysis. Also, in the analysis of research fronts of MI, we found that the use of natural language processing and medical text knowledge extraction play an essential role for systematic analysis and indexing of the underlying semantic contents. Conclusions: By categorizing the research fronts, the results shows that there are twelve growing, five stable and two declining research fronts. We hope that this work will facilitate greater exploration of the method of identifying the research fronts. Moreover, the findings of this study provide an insight on the research fronts and trends in MI.

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