A Hybrid Paper Recommendation Method by Using Heterogeneous Graph and Metadata

The amount of academic articles in digital libraries is increasing exponentially. This growth of scientific papers’ growth made it difficult for researchers to obtain related papers from their queries. Recommendation systems can help them resolve the problem of information overload. However, existing paper recommender methods generally rely on the simple citation network, which ignores the semantic of papers and has the problem of cold start. In this paper, a hybrid paper recommendation approach AMHG is proposed which is based on a multi-level citation heterogeneous graph. Unlike existing works which only use the reference relationship, we consider the same or similar authors’ papers to alleviate the cold start problem of zero-citation and newly published papers. Besides, the metadata information of papers is also incorporated into a representation model to generate better recommender results to alleviate the cold start problem. We use the authors’ influence factors to reorder the candidate list outputting by MLP to obtain high-quality articles. Through experiments, we compare our model with several methods on the DBLP-REC dataset to demonstrate that AMHG outperforms state-of-the-art performance and the effectiveness of recommender.