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Paper accepted at ISI conference in Berlin: “Stereotype and Most-Popular Recommendations in the Digital Library Sowiport”

Jan 17, 2017JoeranPublications, Researchdigital libraries, recommendations-as-a-service, research paper recommender systems, sowiport, stereotype recommendations

Our paper titled “Stereotype and Most-Popular Recommendations in the Digital Library Sowiport” is accepted for publication at the 15th International Symposium on Information Science (ISI) in Berlin. Abstract: Stereotype and most-popular recommendations are widely neglected in the research-paper recommender-system and digital-library community. In other domains such as movie recommendations and hotel search, however, these recommendation approaches […]

Two of our papers about citation and term-weighting schemes got accepted at iConference 2017

Dec 15, 2016JoeranPublications, Researchcc-idf, citation weighting, iconference, preprint, recommendations-as-a-service, term weighting, tf-idf, tf-iduf

Two of our papers about weighting citations and terms in the context of user modeling got accepted at the iConference 2017. Here are the abstracts, and links to the pre-print versions: Evaluating the CC-IDF citation-weighting scheme: How effectively can ‘Inverse Document Frequency’ (IDF) be applied to references? In the domain of academic search engines and research-paper […]

Demo-paper about Mr. DLib’s integration in JabRef is accepted at ECIR 2017

Dec 8, 2016JoeranPilot Partner, Publications, Recommendations-as-a-service, Researchecir, ecir 2017, jabref, preprint, recommendations-as-a-service

A demonstration paper about the integration of Mr. DLib in JabRef is accepted for publication at ECIR 2017. We will update this post soon with more information and a pre-print.

Enhanced re-ranking of our recommendations based on Mendeley’s readership statistics

Nov 2, 2016JoeranRecommendations-as-a-service, Release Notes, Researchaltmetrics, bibliometrics, mendeley, recommendations-as-a-service, scientometrics

Content-based filtering suffers from the problem that no human quality assessments are taken into account. This means, a poorly written paper ppoor would be considered equally relevant for a given input paper pinput as high-quality paper pquality if pquality and ppoor contain the same words. We elevate for this problem by using Mendeley’s readership data for re-ranking Mr. DLib’s […]

The popular reference manager ‘JabRef’ will be our second pilot partner

Oct 28, 2016JoeranPilot Partner, Recommendations-as-a-servicejabref, pilot_partner

We are glad to announce that JabRef – one of the most popular open-source reference manager – will soon be using Mr. DLib to provide recommendatins to its users. The team of Mr. DLib and JabRef had several Skype calls, and we finally agreed about a concept how to integrate Mr. DLib into JabRef. In a first […]

Server status of Mr. DLib publicly available

Oct 19, 2016JoeranRecommendations-as-a-service, Uncategorizeddashboard, monitoring, recommendations-as-a-service

Our servers are now monitored by UptimeRobot, a free monitoring service. You can access all our server statuses at this URL https://stats.uptimerobot.com/WLL5PUjN6 and you will see a dashboard like this: A click on one of the server names will show you more details, e.g. https://stats.uptimerobot.com/WLL5PUjN6/778037437

New recommendation algorithms integrated

Oct 12, 2016JoeranRecommendations-as-a-service, Release Notescontent based filtering, keyphrase recommendations, lucene, more like this, random recommendations, recommendation approaches, recommendations-as-a-service, stereotype recommendation

We have integrated several new recommendation algorithms into Mr. DLib. Some algorithms are only ought as baselines for our researchers, others hopefully will further increase the effectiveness of Mr. DLib. Overall, Mr. DLib now uses the following algorithms: Random The approach randomly picks the set of documents to recommend to the user. We experiment with this […]

Two new servers are online (dev and beta system)

Oct 2, 2016JoeranRecommendations-as-a-service, Release Notesbeta system, development system, recommendations-as-a-service, release notes

So far, Mr. DLib’s recommender system was running only on a single server. Consequently, when me messed up something in the development environment, sometimes the production system was affected, i.e. down. From today on, we have two additional dedicated servers running, meaning we have a total of three servers, one for the development, one for beta, and […]

First Pilot Partner (GESIS’ Sowiport) Integrates Mr. DLib’s Recommendations as-a-Service

Sep 1, 2016JoeranPilot Partner, Recommendations-as-a-service, Release Notesgesis, pilot_partner, recommendations-as-a-service, sowiport

We are proud to announce that the social science portal Sowiport is using Mr. DLib as first pilot partner. Sowiport pools and links quality information from domestic and international providers, making it available in one place. Sowiport currently contains 9.5 million references on publications and research projects. The documents in Sowiport comprise bibliographic metadata (such […]

Mr. DLib

Recommendations-as-a-Service for Academia

Author: Joeran