Paper2vec: Combining Graph and Text Information for Scientific Paper Representation

Abstract

We present Paper2vec, a novel neural network embedding based approach for creating scientific paper representations which make use of both textual and graph-based information. An academic citation network can be viewed as a graph where individual nodes contain rich textual information. With the current trend of open-access to most scientific literature, we presume that this full text of a scientific article contain vital source of information which aids in various recommendation and prediction tasks concerning this domain. To this end, we propose an approach, Paper2vec, which comprises of information from both the modalities and results in a rich representation for scientific papers. Over the recent past representation learning techniques have been studied extensively using neural networks. However, they are modeled independently for text and graph data. Paper2vec leverages recent research in the broader field of unsupervised feature learning from both graphs and text documents. We demonstrate the efficacy of our representations on three real world academic datasets in two tasks - node classification and link prediction where Paper2vec is able to outperform state-of-the-art by a considerable margin.