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Information Inference Service

Enhancing metadata through text and data mining

Information Inference Service (IIS) is a flexible data processing system for handling big data based on Apache Hadoop technologies. It is a subsystem of the OpenAIRE system and it uses algorithms to extract new entities and relations from full texts to enrich SKGs.

In practice, IIS defines data processing workflows that connect various modules, each one with well-defined input and output.

A high-level overview of IIS can be found in the paper “Information Inference in Scholarly Communication Infrastructures: The OpenAIREplus Project Experience", Procedia Computer Science, vol. 38, 2014, 92-99”.

Documentation: Enrichment by mining | OpenAIRE Graph Documentation

Publications:

  • Fedoryszak, M., Tkaczyk, D., Bolikowski, Ł. (2013). Large Scale Citation Matching Using Apache Hadoop. In: Aalberg, T., Papatheodorou, C., Dobreva, M., Tsakonas, G., Farrugia, C.J. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8092. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40501-3_37
  • Giannakopoulos, T., Stamatogiannakis, E., Foufoulas, I., Dimitropoulos, H., Manola, N., Ioannidis, Y. (2014). Content Visualization of Scientific Corpora Using an Extensible Relational Database Implementation. In: Bolikowski, Ł., Casarosa, V., Goodale, P., Houssos, N., Manghi, P., Schirrwagen, J. (eds) Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries -- TPDL 2013 Selected Workshops. TPDL 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 416. Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08425-1_10
  • P. J. Dendek, A. Czeczko, M. Fedoryszak, A. Kawa, and L. Bolikowski, "Content Analysis of Scientific Articles in Apache Hadoop Ecosystem", Stud. Comp.Intelligence, vol. 541, 2014.
  • Foufoulas, Y., Zacharia, E., Dimitropoulos, H., Manola, N., Ioannidis, Y. (2022). DETEXA: Declarative Extensible Text Exploration and Analysis. In: , et al. Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. TPDL 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13541. Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-16802-4_9
  • Foufoulas Y., Stamatogiannakis L., Dimitropoulos H., Ioannidis Y. (2017) “High-Pass Text Filtering for Citation Matching”. In: Kamps J., Tsakonas G., Manolopoulos Y., Iliadis L., Karydis I. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10450. Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-67008-9_28
  • Dominika Tkaczyk, Pawel Szostek, Mateusz Fedoryszak, Piotr Jan Dendek and Lukasz Bolikowski. CERMINE: automatic extraction of structured metadata from scientific literature. In International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2015, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 317-335, doi: 10.1007/s10032-015-0249-8.

Functionalities

Enhance metadata with information obtained through text and data mining
Improved linked open science
Improved research analytics
Improved research monitoring and impact assessment
Customers get structured metadata related to the publications
Funders have access to a list of publications that acknowledge their projects
Content providers (Repository managers/ OA publishers) may enrich their content

Roadmap

TRL 9 (actual system proven in operational environment): used in the OpenAIRE production environment.

For

Content Providers
Research Communities
Research Organisations
Innovators
Funders & Policy Makers

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Contacts

Marek Horst