The Electronic Library: Volume 39 Issue 3

Guest editorial

Oksana Zavalina, Xiaoguang Wang, Qikai Cheng

Towards evolutionary knowledge representation under the big data circumstance

Xuhui Li, Liuyan Liu, Xiaoguang Wang, Yiwen Li, Qingfeng Wu, Tieyun Qian

The purpose of this paper is to propose a graph-based representation approach for evolutionary knowledge under the big data circumstance, aiming to gradually build conceptual…

Towards an entity relation extraction framework in the cross-lingual context

Chuanming Yu, Haodong Xue, Manyi Wang, Lu An

Owing to the uneven distribution of annotated corpus among different languages, it is necessary to bridge the gap between low resource languages and high resource languages. From…

Data set entity recognition based on distant supervision

Pengcheng Li, Qikai Liu, Qikai Cheng, Wei Lu

This paper aims to identify data set entities in scientific literature. To address poor recognition caused by a lack of training corpora in existing studies, a distant supervised…

Investigating the use of metadata record graphs to analyze subject headings in the digital public library of America

Mark Edward Phillips, Hannah Tarver

This study furthers metadata quality research by providing complementary network-based metrics and insights to analyze metadata records and identify areas for improvement.

An exploratory analysis: extracting materials science knowledge from unstructured scholarly data

Xintong Zhao, Jane Greenberg, Vanessa Meschke, Eric Toberer, Xiaohua Hu

The output of academic literature has increased significantly due to digital technology, presenting researchers with a challenge across every discipline, including materials…

Collecting and evaluating large volumes of bibliographic metadata aggregated in the WorldCat database: a proposed methodology to overcome challenges

Vyacheslav I. Zavalin, Shawne D. Miksa

This paper aims to discuss the challenges encountered in collecting, cleaning and analyzing the large data set of bibliographic metadata records in machine-readable cataloging…