Non-linear book manifolds: Learning from associations the dynamic geometry of digital libraries

Richard Nock, Frank Nielsen, Eric Briys

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Abstract

Mainstream approaches in the design of virtual libraries basically exploit the same ambient space as their physical twins. Our paper is an attempt to rather capture automatically the actual space on which the books live, and learn the virtual library as a non-linear book manifold. This tackles tantalizing questions, chief among which whether modeling should be static and book focused (e.g. using bag of words encoding) or dynamic and user focused (e.g. relying on what we define as a bag of readers encoding). Experiments on a real-world digital library display that the latter encoding is a serious challenger to the former. Our results also show that the geometric layers of the manifold learned bring sizeable advantages for retrieval and visualization purposes. For example, the topological layer of the manifold allows to craft Manifold association rules; experiments display that they bring dramatic improvements over conventional association rules built from the discrete topology of book sets. Improvements embrace each of the following major standpoints on association rule mining: computational, support, confidence, lift, and leverage standpoint.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationJCDL 2013 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Pages313-322
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2013 - Indianapolis, IN, United States
Duration: 22 Jul 201326 Jul 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
ISSN (Print)1552-5996

Conference

Conference13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityIndianapolis, IN
Period22/07/1326/07/13

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