The Smart Book Recommender, built by The Open University with Springer Nature, helps the Computer Science editorial team decide which books, journals and proceedings to market at which conferences. It uses the Computer Science Ontology to semantically match around 27,000 editorial products against a conference's thematic focus.
Benefits & outcomes
Cuts the manual effort of matching products to venues.
Interactive graph views show why each recommendation was made.
Evaluations by Springer Nature editors and OU researchers came back positive.
Notes & quotes
"SBR recommends books, journals, and conference proceedings relevant to a conference by taking advantage of a semantically enhanced representation of about 27K editorial products."
"SBR also allows users to investigate why a certain publication was suggested by the system."
Publisher / company: The Open University in collaboration with Springer Nature
Date of mention: 24/03/2021
Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13526