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id  ProceedingsTitleParser
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owner  WolfgangFahl
title  Shallow Semantic Parser to extract metadata from scientific proceedings titles
url  https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ProceedingsTitleParser
version  0.0.1
description  
date  2020-07-02
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Usage

What is it?

The Proceedings Title Parser Service is a specialized search engine for scientific proceedings and events. It searches in a corpus/database based on data from

  1. http://www.openresearch.org ✓
  2. http://ceur-ws.org ✓
  3. http://www.wikidata.org (in progress)
  4. http://confref.org (in progress)
  5. http://crossref.org (in progress)
  6. https://dblp.org/ (in progress)
  7. GND (in progress)
  8. http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/ (planned)
  9. ...

Search Modes

The Proceedings Title Parser currently has three modes:

  1. Proceedings Title Parsing
  2. Named Entity Recognition (NER)
  3. Extract/Scrape

All three modes expect some lines of text as input. The mode is automatically detected/selected by the content of the lines given as input.

Example

The input: 

Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020)
BIR 2019
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2599/
  • will trigger Proceedings Title Parsing mode for the first line
  • Named Entity Recognition mode for the second line
  • Extract/Scape mode for the third line

Try it!

Proceedings Title Parsing mode

In Proceedings Title Parsing mode the content of a line is parsed word by word to find typical elements of Proceedings titles like

  • ordinal (First, III., 6th, 23rd)
  • city (Paris, New York, London, Berlin, Barcelona)
  • country (USA, Italy, Germany, France, UK)
  • provinces (California, Texas, Florida, Ontario, NRW)
  • scope (International, European, Czech, Italian, National)
  • year (2016,1988,2017,2018,2019,2020)
  • ...

while the above elements can be found by comparing with a list of known cities, countries, provinces, ... finding the event acronym needs a lookup in a corpus/database of proceedings and events which is automatically performed to check whether a known event acronym like ISWC, ICEIS, SIGSPATIAL, ... might be found with the given context e.g. year. If the acronym (with year) is found a link to the resulting source record is shown.

Example

Input 

Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020)

Try it!

# Source Acronym Url Found by
1 OPEN RESEARCH HPCS 2020 https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/HPCS%202020 HPCS 2020 
{'year': '2020', 'scope': 'International', 'event': 'Conference', 'topic': 'High Performance Computing & Simulation', 'acronym': 'HPCS 2020', 'title': 'Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020)', 'source': 'line', 'publish': 'Proceedings', 'syntax': 'on', 'delimiter': '&'}
{ "acronym": "HPCS 2020", "city": "Barcelona", "country": "Spain", "creation_date": "2020-03-26 06:01:12", "end_date": "2020-07-24 00:00:00", "event": "HPCS 2020", "foundBy": "HPCS 2020", "homePage": null, "homepage": "http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20/", "modification_date": "2020-03-26 08:16:33", "series": "HPCS", "source": "OPEN RESEARCH", "start_date": "2020-07-20 00:00:00", "title": "2020 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation", "url": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/HPCS 2020" }

Named Entity Recognition mode (NER)

In named entity recognition mode the words to be looked up can be directly entered without following the patterns of typical proceedings titles. Syntax elements like "Proceedings of ... " may be left out. This mode will often also give good results but can not use the information provided by syntactically elements like "at". For an example "Proceedings of the 1st conference of the history of Rome at Paris" the NER equivalent "1 conference history Rome Paris" will obviously be ambiguous.

Example

Input 

BIR 2019

Try it!

Result

# Source Acronym Url Found by
1 OPEN RESEARCH BIR 2019 https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/BIR%202019 BIR 2019
2 BIR 2019 BIR 2019 http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2345 BIR 2019
3 confref BIR 2019 http://portal.confref.org/list/bir2019 BIR 2019 
'title': 'BIR 2019', 'source': 'line', 'year': '2019'}
{ "acronym": "BIR 2019", "city": null, "country": null, "creation_date": "2020-03-09 11:01:20", "end_date": "2019-09-25 00:00:00", "event": "BIR 2019", "foundBy": "BIR 2019", "homepage": "https://bir2019.ue.katowice.pl/", "modification_date": "2020-07-06 11:47:07", "series": "BIR", "source": "OPEN RESEARCH", "start_date": "2019-09-23 00:00:00", "title": "18th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research", "url": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/BIR 2019" }
{ "acronym": "BIR 2019", "city": "Cologne", "country": "Germany", "enum": "8th", "event": "BIR 2019", "eventId": "Vol-2345", "eventType": "Workshop", "foundBy": "BIR 2019", "homePage": null, "month": "April", "ordinal": 14, "publish": "Proceedings", "scope": "International", "source": "CEUR-WS", "syntax": "on", "title": "Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2019)co-located with the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019),Cologne, Germany, April 14th, 2019.Submitted by: Guillaume Cabanac", "topic": "Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval", "url": "http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2345", "year": "2019" }
{ "acronym": "BIR 2019", "address": null, "area": { "id": 2, "value": "Computer Science" }, "cameraReadyDate": null, "city": "Katowice", "confSeries": { "dblpId": "https://dblp.org/db/conf/bir/", "description": null, "eissn": null, "id": "bir", "issn": null, "name": "Business Informatics Research" }, "country": "Poland", "description": null, "endDate": "2019-09-25", "event": "BIR 2019", "foundBy": "BIR 2019", "homepage": null, "id": "bir2019", "keywords": [ "Data mining", "Enterprise architecture", "Business process model", "Aggregation", "Acceptance", "Banking", "Blockchain", "Comparison", "Digital learning", "e-Health", "Agile modelling method engineering", "Literature review", "Digitalization", "ecosystem", "Barriers of change", "Bing", "Business process management system", "digital Workplace Health Promotion (dWHP)", "Dual video cast", "e-Lecture" ], "name": "Business Informatics Research", "notificationDate": null, "ranks": [], "shortDescription": null, "source": "confref", "startDate": "2019-09-23", "submissionDate": null, "submissionExtended": false, "url": "http://portal.confref.org/list/bir2019", "year": 2019 }

Extract / scrape mode

If the line contains an url of a known source of conference of proceedings title information the page will be automatically visited and the meta data extracted.

Example

Input 

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2599/

Try it!

Result:

# Source Acronym Url Found by
1 CEUR-WS BlockSW http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2599 BlockSW 
{'prefix': 'Blockchain enabled Semantic Web', 'event': 'Workshop', 'acronym': 'BlockSW', 'title': 'Proceedings of the Blockchain enabled Semantic Web Workshop (BlockSW) and Contextualized Knowledge Graphs (CKG) Workshop', 'source': 'CEUR-WS', 'eventId': 'Vol-2599', 'publish': 'Proceedings', 'syntax': 'and'}
{ "acronym": "BlockSW", "event": "BlockSW", "eventId": "Vol-2599", "eventType": "Workshop", "foundBy": "BlockSW", "homePage": null, "month": "October", "prefix": "Blockchain enabled Semantic Web", "publish": "Proceedings", "source": "CEUR-WS", "syntax": "New", "title": "Proceedings of the Blockchain enabled Semantic Web Workshop (BlockSW) and Contextualized Knowledge Graphs (CKG) Workshop (BlockSW-CKG 2019),Auckland, New Zealand, October 27, 2019.Submitted by: Reza Samavi", "url": "http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2599", "year": "2019" }

Result formats / Content Negotiation

The following result formats are supported:

  • html (default)
  • json
  • xml

To select a result format you can either add the "&format" query parameter as part of your url or specify the corresponding accept header in your query.

Example format parameter queries

csv

http://ptp.bitplan.com/parse?examples=example2&titles=PAKM+2000&format=csv

Try it!

result is the same as with content-negotiation text/csv

json

http://ptp.bitplan.com/parse?examples=example2&titles=BIR+2019&format=json

Try it! result is the same as with content-negotiation application/json

xml

http://ptp.bitplan.com/parse?examples=example2&titles=EuroPar+2020&format=xml

Try it! result is the same as with content-negotiation application/xml or text/xml

wikison

To get WikiSon format 

http://ptp.bitplan.com/parse?examples=example2&titles=EuroPar+2020&format=wikison

Try it!

Result: 

{{Event
|homepage=https://2020.euro-par.org/
|event=EuroPar 2020
|series=EuroPar
|acronym=EuroPar 2020
|title=International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing
|city=Warsaw
|country=Poland
|start_date=2020-08-24 00:00:00
|end_date=2020-08-28 00:00:00
|url=https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/EuroPar 2020
}}

Examples with accept header

csv

curl -H "Accept: text/csv" "http://ptp.bitplan.com/parse?examples=example2&titles=PAKM+2000"
Result for text/csv
"month","homePage","eventType","country","acronym","ordinal","url","year","event","eventId","source","syntax","enum","foundBy","location","publish","scope","title"
"October","","Conference","Switzerland","PAKM 2000",3,"http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-34","2000","PAKM 2000","Vol-34","CEUR-WS","the","Third","PAKM 2000","Basel","Proceedings","International","Proceedings of the Third International Conference (PAKM 2000), Basel, Switzerland, October 30-31, 2000.Submitted by: Ulrich Reimer"

json

curl -H "Accept: application/json" "http://ptp.bitplan.com/parse?examples=example2&titles=BIR+2019"
Result for application/json
{
	"count": 3,
	"events": [{
		"acronym": "BIR 2019",
		"city": null,
		"country": null,
		"creation_date": "2020-03-09T11:01:20+00:00",
		"end_date": "2019-09-25T00:00:00+00:00",
		"event": "BIR 2019",
		"foundBy": "BIR 2019",
		"homePage": null,
		"homepage": "https://bir2019.ue.katowice.pl/",
		"modification_date": "2020-07-06T11:47:07+00:00",
		"series": "BIR",
		"source": "OPEN RESEARCH",
		"start_date": "2019-09-23T00:00:00+00:00",
		"title": "18th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research",
		"url": "https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/BIR 2019"
	}, {
		"acronym": "BIR 2019",
		"city": "Cologne",
		"country": "Germany",
		"enum": "8th",
		"event": "BIR 2019",
		"eventId": "Vol-2345",
		"eventType": "Workshop",
		"foundBy": "BIR 2019",
		"homePage": null,
		"month": "April",
		"ordinal": 14,
		"publish": "Proceedings",
		"scope": "International",
		"source": "CEUR-WS",
		"syntax": "on",
		"title": "Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2019)co-located with the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019),Cologne, Germany, April 14th, 2019.Submitted by: Guillaume Cabanac",
		"topic": "Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval",
		"url": "http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2345",
		"year": "2019"
	}, {
		"acronym": "BIR 2019",
		"address": null,
		"area": {
			"value": "Computer Science",
			"id": 2
		},
		"cameraReadyDate": null,
		"city": "Katowice",
		"confSeries": {
			"id": "bir",
			"issn": null,
			"eissn": null,
			"dblpId": "https://dblp.org/db/conf/bir/",
			"name": "Business Informatics Research",
			"description": null
		},
		"country": "Poland",
		"description": null,
		"endDate": "2019-09-25",
		"event": "BIR 2019",
		"foundBy": "BIR 2019",
		"homepage": null,
		"id": "bir2019",
		"keywords": ["Data mining", "Enterprise architecture", "Business process model", "Aggregation", "Acceptance", "Banking", "Blockchain", "Comparison", "Digital learning", "e-Health", "Agile modelling method engineering", "Literature review", "Digitalization", "ecosystem", "Barriers of change", "Bing", "Business process management system", "digital Workplace Health Promotion (dWHP)", "Dual video cast", "e-Lecture"],
		"name": "Business Informatics Research",
		"notificationDate": null,
		"ranks": [],
		"shortDescription": null,
		"source": "confref",
		"startDate": "2019-09-23",
		"submissionDate": null,
		"submissionExtended": false,
		"url": "http://portal.confref.org/list/bir2019",
		"year": 2019
	}]
}

xml

As an alternative to application/xml the mime-type text/xml is also accepted with the same result. 

curl -H "Accept: application/xml" "http://ptp.bitplan.com/parse?examples=example2&titles=EuroPar+2020"
Result for application/xml
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<events>
	<event>
		<foundBy>EuroPar 2020</foundBy>
		<homepage>https://2020.euro-par.org/</homepage>
		<event>EuroPar 2020</event>
		<series>EuroPar</series>
		<acronym>EuroPar 2020</acronym>
		<title>International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing</title>
		<city>Warsaw</city>
		<country>Poland</country>
		<start_date>2020-08-24T00:00:00</start_date>
		<end_date>2020-08-28T00:00:00</end_date>
		<creation_date>2020-02-27T14:44:52</creation_date>
		<modification_date>2020-02-27T14:44:52</modification_date>
		<url>https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/EuroPar 2020</url>
		<source>OPEN RESEARCH</source>
	</event>
</events>


Running your own service

PreRequisites

If you'd like to run your own copy of this service you'll need:

  1. git
  2. python 3 (>=3.6)
  3. some unix command line tools like curl, grep, wc

Tested on Linux (Ubuntu bionic/Travis) and MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 (using macports)

Installation

git clone https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/ProceedingsTitleParser
./install

Getting the sample data

Getting the sample data from the different sources may take a few minutes. You'll need som 60 MBytes of disk space as of 2020-07-11 

scripts/getsamples

Testing

./test

Implementation

Choice of Database/Storage system

The following candidates for a Database/storage system where considered:

  1. Python native solutions
    1. using JSON files as caches
    2. ruruki
  2. Graph databases
    1. Gremlin python
    2. Dgraph
    3. Weaviate
  3. RDF TripleStore
    1. Apache Jena

To investigate the feasibility of the approaches the Open Source Project DgraphAndWeaviateTest was created and issues for the different providers where created and questions asked and answer given e.g.:

Issues

Stackoverflow questions


Stackoverflow answers

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