From: ZHANG L. <zl...@ho...> - 2009-07-29 15:20:45
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Hi Cody, Thanks for your compliment: )I am a graduate student majoring in software engineering with some knowledge about graphical modeling, so I have limited knowledge about information visualization: ) About matching the reference entry in references text with other paper's title, I just used a simple sub-string containing test approach: First, remove all the blanks and line delimiters in the references text of the master paper to generate a modified references text. Second, remove all the blanks in the referred papers' titles to generate modified papers' titles. Finally, for each paper's modified title, test whether it is contained in the modified references text. The advantage of the approach is that it can correct some typing errors such as more blanks and facilitate text editing effort of users. Since it is impossible for the modified references to generate new char sequence matching paper's title which are not contained in the original references text and the possibility of paper title confliction is low, the approach is acceptable for small set of papers to generate useful information. Your research topic is very interesting, now I am exploring your and your lab's website: ) Best regards, Liang ZHANG -------------------------------------------------- From: "Cody Dunne" <cd...@cs...> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 8:33 PM To: "ZHANG Liang" <zl...@ho...> Cc: <jab...@li...> Subject: Re: [Jabref-users] Contribute a plugin to visualize referencerelatinship(citationnetwork) among papers > Hi Zhang, > > ZHANG Liang wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I have just developed a visualization plug-in to help myself >> understanding the reference relationship(citation network) between some >> papers. The project is hosted at >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/jabrefprrvp/ and the plug-in, source >> file, demo etc. can be download at >> http://code.google.com/p/jabrefprrvp/downloads/list since currently the >> sourceforge file manager does not work correctly. >> >> Hope it can benefit you too:) >> >> Best regards, >> Liang ZHANG > > That's quite interesting. How does it match the free text references to > the other entries? Also, have you pursued other visualizations for many > papers like force-directed or semantic substrates? > > I'm working on something similar that combines JabRef with a network > analysis tool and multi-document summarization techniques. I have a > preliminary screenshot here: > http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/files/iopener_workbench.png > It doesn't do the free text link conversion yours does, though. I'm > using the clean dataset from the ACL Anthology Network for my research: > http://belobog.si.umich.edu/clair/anthology/index.cgi > If you can output the links you generate in a standard tab-delimited > format (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/nvss/netFormat.shtml) you can load it > in lots of different visualization tools like SocialAction or NodeXL > automatically. I'm involved with both if you'd like help with that. > > It's great so see other people working on citation network visualization! > > Cody > |