RESSIST: a research object-based recommender system

Abstract

The scientific method is a methodological approach to the process of inquiry { in which
empirically grounded theory of nature is constructed and verified [14]. It is a hard, exhaustive and dedicated multi-stage procedure that a researcher must perform to achieve
valuable knowledge. Trying to help researchers during this process, a recommender system, intended as a researcher assistant, is designed to provide them useful tools and
information for each stage of the procedure. A new similarity measure between research
objects and a representational model, based on domain spaces, to handle them in dif
ferent levels are created as well as a system to build them from OAI-PMH (and RSS)
resources. It tries to represents a sound balance between scientific insight into individual
scientific creative processes and technical implementation using innovative technologies
in information extraction, document summarization and semantic analysis at a large
scale.