A Novel Article Recommendation System Empowered by the Hybrid Combinations of Content-Based State-of-the-Art Methods

Abstract

The initial literature reviewing step is of great importance during any scientific reporting. Nevertheless, finding relevant papers grows tough as the number of online scientific publications rapidly increases. Correspondingly, the need for article recommendation systems has emerged, which aim to recommend new papers suitable for the researchers’ interests. Using these systems provides researchers access to related publications quickly and effectively. In this study, a novel article recommendation system, which is empowered by the hybrid combinations of content-based state-of-the-art methods, is proposed. Various methods are utilized comparatively for an in-depth analysis, and user profiles are evaluated. 41,000 articles collected from the ARXIV dataset are used in the performance evaluation. In the experiments in which Word2vec and LDA are combined, Precision@50, Recall@50, and F1-score@50 achieve the highest performance with .206, .791, and .498 values, respectively. The in-depth analysis and the numerical findings justify that the proposed system is strong and promising compared to the literature.