Abstract
Acknowledgements have been examined as important elements in measuring the contributions to and intellectual debts of a scientific publication. Unlike previous studies that were limited in the scope of analysis and manual examination. The present study aimed to conduct the automatic classification of acknowledgements on a large scale of data. To this end, we first created a training dataset for acknowledgements classification by sampling the acknowledgements sections from the entire PubMed Central database. Second, we adopted various supervised learning algorithms to examine which algorithm performed best in what condition. In addition, we observed the factors affecting classification performance. We investigated the effects of the following three main aspects: classification algorithms, categories, and text representations. The CNN+Doc2Vec algorithm achieved the highest performance of 93.58% accuracy in the original dataset and 87.93% in the converted dataset. The experimental results indicated that the characteristics of categories and sentence patterns influenced the performance of classification. Most of the classifiers performed better on the categories of financial, peer interactive communication, and technical support compared to other classes.
Original language | English |
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Article number | e0228928 |
Journal | PloS one |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 Feb 1 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This study was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2019R1A2C2002577). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The authors would like to thank you the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Song et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General