A Bootstrapping-based Method to Automatically Identify Data-usage Statements in Publications

Zhang, Qiuzi; Cheng, Qikai; Huang, Yong; Lu, Wei

doi:10.20309/jdis.201606

Abstract

Purpose

Our study proposes a bootstrapping-based method to automatically extract data-usage statements from academic texts.

Design/methodology/approach

The method for data-usage statements extraction starts with seed entities and iteratively learns patterns and data-usage statements from unlabeled text. In each iteration, new patterns are constructed and added to the pattern list based on their calculated score. Three seed-selection strategies are also proposed in this paper.

Findings

The performance of the method is verified by means of experiments on real data collected from computer science journals. The results show that the method can achieve satisfactory performance regarding precision of extraction and extensibility of obtained patterns.

Research limitations

While the triple representation of sentences is effective and efficient for extracting data-usage statements, it is unable to handle complex sentences. Additional features that can address complex sentences should thus be explored in the future.

Practical implications

Data-usage statements extraction is beneficial for data-repository construction and facilitates research on data-usage tracking, dataset-based scholar search, and dataset evaluation.

Originality/value

To the best of our knowledge, this paper is among the first to address the important task of automatically extracting data-usage statements from real data.

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