Improving access to scientific literature
Davide Buscaldi · 2018
Nowadays, the flow of data and publications in almost every field of research is continuously growing. Some estimates place the growth rate in the number of scientific publications between 2.2% and 14% per year, depending on the type and the domain of the publication [6]. This data deluge presents a bottleneck for scientific progress and a challenge for existing search engines. The problems to be solved are some old ones: the ambiguity of a concept, especially among different research fields (for instance, "lattice" in computer science vs. physics), and the synonymy (or quasi-synonymy) of concepts that are expressed in different ways: for instance, "opinion mining" and "sentiment analysis". These issues may affect various tasks: a researcher building a state of the art for a specific topic, an editor finding reviewers for a given paper, or a government official studying a project proposal, among others.