@conference {693,
	title = {Semantic User Profiles: Learning Scholars{\textquoteright} Competences by Analyzing their Publications},
	booktitle = {Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data (SAVE-SD 2016)},
	volume = {9792},
	year = {2016},
	month = {04/2016},
	publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
	organization = {Springer International Publishing},
	type = {Full paper},
	address = {Montreal, QC, Canada},
	abstract = {Semantic publishing generally targets the enhancement of scientific artifacts, such as articles and datasets, with semantic metadata. However, smarter scholarly applications also require a better model of their users, in order to understand their interests, tasks, and competences. These are generally captured in so-called user profiles. We investigate a number of existing linked open data (LOD) vocabularies and propose a description of scientists{\textquoteright} competences in LOD format. To avoid the cold start problem, we suggest to automatically populate these profiles based on the publications (co-)authored by users, which we hypothesize reflect their research competences.  Towards this end, we developed the first complete, automated workflow for generating semantic user profiles by analyzing full-text research articles through natural language processing.  We evaluated our system with a user study on ten researchers from two different groups, resulting in mean average precision (MAP) of up to 92\%. We also analyze the impact of semantic zoning of research articles on the accuracy of the resulting profiles. Finally, we demonstrate how these semantic user profiles can be applied in a number of use cases, including article ranking for personalized search and finding scientists competent in a topic \&mdash; e.g., to find reviewers for a paper.},
	keywords = {Linked Open Data, text mining, User Profiling},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-53637-8_12},
	attachments = {https://www.semanticsoftware.info/system/files/savesd16.pdf},
	author = {Bahar Sateli and Felicitas L{\"o}ffler and Birgitta K{\"o}nig-Ries and Ren{\'e} Witte},
	editor = {Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran and Francesco Osborne and Silvio Peroni}
}
