DeSCoVeR: Debiased Semantic Context Prior for Venue Recommendation

Rajanala, Sailaja and Pal, Arghya and Singh, Manish and et al, . (2022) DeSCoVeR: Debiased Semantic Context Prior for Venue Recommendation. In: 45th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2022, 11 July 2022 through 15 July 2022, Madrid.

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Abstract

We present a novel semantic context prior-based venue recommendation system that uses only the title and the abstract of a paper. Based on the intuition that the text in the title and abstract have both semantic and syntactic components, we demonstrate that a joint training of a semantic feature extractor and syntactic feature extractor collaboratively leverages meaningful information that helps to provide venues for papers. The proposed methodology that we call DeSCoVeR at first elicits these semantic and syntactic features using a Neural Topic Model and text classifier respectively. The model then executes a transfer learning optimization procedure to perform a contextual transfer between the feature distributions of the Neural Topic Model and the text classifier during the training phase. DeSCoVeR also mitigates the document-level label bias using a Causal back-door path criterion and a sentence-level keyword bias removal technique. Experiments on the DBLP dataset show that DeSCoVeR outperforms the state-of-the-art methods. © 2022 ACM.

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