Personalized Research Paper Recommendation using Deep Learning

With the increasing number of scientific publications, research paper recommendation has become increasingly important for scientists. Most researchers rely on keyword-based search or following citations in other papers, in order to find relevant research articles. And usually they spend a lot of time without getting satisfactory results. This study aims to propose a personalized research paper recommendation system, that facilitate this task by recommending papers based on users' explicit and implicit feedback. The users will be allowed to explicitly specify the papers of interest. In addition, user activities (e.g., viewing abstracts or full-texts) will be analyzed in order to enhance users' profiles. Most of the current research paper recommendation and information retrieval systems use the classical bag-of-words methods, which don't consider the context of the words and the semantic similarity between the articles. This study will use Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) to discover continuous and latent semantic features of the papers, in order to improve the recommendation quality. The proposed approach utilizes PubMed so far, since it is frequently used by physicians and scientists, but it can easily incorporate other datasets in the future.