recommendations

Prof Dr Joeran Beel and his team are part of the ADAPT Research Centre as well as of the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. Our work focuses on machine learning, text mining, natural language processing, the blockchain and other technologies, in areas including recommender systems, search engines, news analysis, plagiarism detection, and machine translation. Domains we are particularly interested in include digital libraries & digital humanities, health care, tourism, law, fintech, and transportation. If you want to lean more about our research on recommender systems as a service, read our blog posts below, or have a look at our research areas, industry partner page, or homepage.

Docear 1.0 Beta 4 with literature recommendations (free full-text download)

Beta 4 of Docear is available for download. There are many minor changes and enhancements. For instance, your existing PDF reader (e.g. Foxit) is automatically pre-selected, handling BibTeX files from Mendeley improved (you can automatically resolve duplicate BibTeX keys), and we did many bug fixes. But, there is one major improvement: Docear Beta 4 offers free full-text literature recommendations.  In your workspace panel you find a link “Show Recommendations”. If you click this link, a tab will open with a list of research papers that might interest you. If you are a long-time user of Docear and also used SciPlore MindMapping, you might remember that we already had recommendations in SciPlore MindMapping. And you probably remember that they were… well, let’s face it, they were really … crappy. Docear’s recommendations are way better. From my experience I would say they are quite decent and let me tell you that the recommendations will become even better in the future. However, the quality of recommendations also depends on the field of your research. Most of our papers are the field of computer science, accordingly recommendations in this field probably are best. But maybe the best thing about the recommended papers is – they are completely free. Just click on them and they will be downloaded to your literature repository or open in your web browser. Please note, to get recommendations you must have used Docear for a while and must have added at least a few papers to your literature repository.

We are very interested in your opinion: What do you think about the recommendations? How good or bad are they? How important are recommendations for you?

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By Joeran Beel, ago