Textual Analysis of ICALEPCS and IPAC Conference Proceedings: Revealing Research Trends, Topics, and Collaborations for Future Insights and Advanced Search

Abstract

In this paper, we show a textual analysis of past ICALEPCS and IPAC conference proceedings to gain insights into the research trends and topics discussed in the field. We use natural language processing techniques to extract meaningful information from the abstracts and papers of past conference proceedings. We extract topics to visualize and identify trends, analyze their evolution to identify emerging research directions and highlight interesting publications based solely on their content with an analysis of their network. Additionally, we will provide an advanced search tool to better search in the existing papers to prevent duplication and easier reference findings. Our analysis provides a comprehensive overview of the research landscape in the field and helps researchers and practitioners to better understand the state-of-the-art and identify areas for future research.

Keywords: research trends, search, conference proceedings, natural language processing, topic modeling

Data

To download data and trained models, run following commands

# Make sure you have git-lfs installed (https://git-lfs.com)
git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/sulcan/TEXT_ICALEPCS

To load the downloaded dataset, you need an English word dictionary (words_alpha.txt) and gzip and pickle libraries to open the text_public.pickle.gzip file. We mostly work with abstracts, which can be extracted via function core.get_abstracts

import pickle, gzip, core

# English dictionary, to eventually eliminate badly readable pdfs
with open('words_alpha.txt', 'r') as f:
         EN = f.read().split('\n')

with gzip.open('TEXT_ICALEPCS23/text_public.pickle.gzip','rb') as f:
         data = pickle.load(f)
         abstracts = core.get_abstracts(data,EN)

Semantic Search Tool

You need following Python libraries

pip install sentence_transformers==2.2.2 gensim==4.1.2 nltk==3.6.7

SimCSE

SimCSE finetuning https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08821.

Source code is partially based on sample script https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/blob/master/examples/unsupervised_learning/SimCSE/train_simcse_from_file.py

Search

Simple demo from the paper

# loads library
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
# loads the model weights
model = SentenceTransformer('TEXT_ICALEPCS/simcse')
# sample texts from paper
texts = ["DESY radio frequency cavities detuned.",
         "XFEL cavities detuned.",
         "My teeth have frequent cavities.",
         "Please tune radio at low frequency.",
         "DESY is following a radio at low volumes."]
# sentences transformed to the embedding
e = model.encode(texts)
print(e.shape) # (5, 768)

You can replace texts variable with arbitrary content, e.g. abstracts.

Fine-Tuning

The model was trained with script simcse_train.py, see paper for exact parameters.

Word2Vec

Word embedding for all unique tokens was found with Gensim 4.1.2,

To search through all papers (abstracts):

from rapidfuzz import fuzz
import numpy as np

def find_best_match(qk : string, k : dict):
    qk = qk.lower()
    # if the word is in dictionary 
    if qk in k:
        return k[k.index(qk)]
    # otherwise, find it
    score = {k_ : int(fuzz.ratio(qk,k_)) for k_ in k}
    best = np.argmax(np.array(list(score.values())))
    return k[best]

Topics

Entire script including the logic used for generating figures in paper is in topic.ipynb

Knowledge Extraction

TBD

Citation Graph

TBD

Bipartite Graph and Projected Graphs

TBD

Citation

TBD

sulcantonin/TEXT_ICALEPCS23