Title :
Geographic clustering of research universities in specialized fields using Microsoft Academic Search
Author :
Kaczynski, David ; Gongzhu Hu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Central Michigan Univ., Mount Pleasant, MI, USA
Abstract :
Search is no doubt the most common activities on the Web. One of the most frequent search activities people in the educational and academic communities do is to search for research topics and papers and their author/affiliation information. For example, undergraduate students searching for graduate schools and master-level students searching for institutions for doctoral studies may go online to find universities that are conducting research in a highly specific field of their interest. A common way of doing this is to search journals and conferences for pertinent articles, and then accumulating the affiliations of the authors. In this paper, we present an interactive web-based academic search interface for discovering geographic clusters of academic institutions given a specific field by the user. The underlying system interacts with Microsoft Academic Search API and Google Places API, as well as Weka for clustering analysis. The system can be easily extended to accommodate other types of queries.
Keywords :
application program interfaces; educational institutions; electronic publishing; geographic information systems; information retrieval; pattern clustering; user interfaces; Google places API; Microsoft academic search API; Weka; academic communities; academic institutions; author-affiliation information; clustering analysis; doctoral studies; educational communities; geographic clustering; graduate schools; interactive Web-based academic search interface; master-level students; pertinent articles; research universities; search activities; specialized fields; undergraduate students; Data mining; Educational institutions; Encyclopedias; Google; Internet; Organizations; Search engines; Google Places; Microsoft Academic Search; Scala; Weka; clustering; system integration;
Conference_Titel :
Information Reuse and Integration (IRI), 2013 IEEE 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
DOI :
10.1109/IRI.2013.6642469