Fuzzy matching utilities for scholarly metadata
Project description
fuzzycat (wip)
Fuzzy matching publications for fatcat.
Note: This is currently work-in-progress.
Motivation
Most of the results on sites like Google Scholar group publications into clusters. Each cluster represents one publication, abstracted from its concrete representation as a link to a PDF.
We call the abstract publication work and the concrete instance a release. One goal is to group releases under works and to implement a versions feature (self-match). Another goal is to have support for matching of external lists (e.g. title lists or other document) to the existing records.
This repository contains both generic code for matching as well as fatcat specific code using the fatcat openapi client.
Running and Deployment
We defer more packaging polish until the code stabilizes a bit more. For now:
$ git clone git@github.com:miku/fuzzycat.git && cd fuzzycat
$ pipenv install --deploy
$ pipenv run python -m fuzzycat.main
For the future, an independent pex or shiv executable would be a convenient option to allow execution from any directory.
Approach
- Local code, with command line entry points for matching as well as adapter for fatcat.
A few assumption we need to make:
- If two strings are given, an exact string match does not mean equality (at all), e.g. "Acta geographica" has currently eight associated ISSN, and a title like "Buchbesprechungen" appears many hundreds of times. We need a bit more context for a decision.
Datasets
Relevant datasets are:
- release and container metadata from a bulk fatcat export, e.g. https://archive.org/details/fatcat_bulk_exports_2020-08-05
- issn journal level data, via issnlister
- journal abbreviation lists
Matching approaches
Performance data points
Against elasticsearch
Candidate generation via elasticsearch, 40 parallel queries, sustained speed at about 17857 queries per hour, that is around 5 queries/s.
$ time cat ~/data/researchgate/x04 | \
parallel -j40 --pipe -N 1 ./fatcatx_rg_unmatched.py - \
> ~/data/researchgate/x04_results.ndj
...
real 3409m16.442s
user 29177m5.516s
sys 4927m3.277s
Without a search index
Candidate grouping for self-match can be done locally by extracting a key per document, then a group by (via sort and uniq). Clustering 150M docs took about 607min (around 4k docs/s, no verification step).
Data issues
A republished article
There is "student BMJ" and "BMJ" - this (html) article (interview) has been first published on "sbmj" (Published 07 July 2011), then "bmj" (Published 10 August 2011).
Notes; Originally published as: Student BMJ 2011;19:d3983
It is essentially the same text, same title, author, just different DOI and probably a different recorded date.
Generic pattern "republication" duplicate:
- metadata mostly same, except date and doi
Common title
Probably a few thousand very common short titles.
Some authors do this regularly:
Different DOI, so we know it is different.
More examples:
- https://fatcat.wiki/release/search?q=%22errata%22 (37680)
- https://fatcat.wiki/release/search?q=%22Einleitung%22 (68005)
- https://fatcat.wiki/release/search?q=%22Notes%22 (1507705)
- https://fatcat.wiki/release/search?q=%22Letters+to+the+Editor%22 (30976)
Title with extra data
- like ISBN, ISSN, price and all kind of extra metadata
- https://fatcat.wiki/release/search?q=title%3A%22ISBN%22
- titles typically get longer: https://fatcat.wiki/release/olxswrilxfci3ibb3bg5xhstr4
- some of these are actually "reviews", e.g. https://fatcat.wiki/release/4blc5mfc5bfaxkofuletqxuzp4
Another example:
- too long, original suggested citation seems to be:
Parker, S. and Kerrod, R. (2002), "Children’s) Space Busters (1st) Looking at Stars (2nd)", Reference Reviews, Vol. 16 No. 5, pp. 26-27. https://doi.org/10.1108/rr.2002.16.5.26.252
Sometimes a title will be ambiguous
For example given a title "Shakespeare in Tokyo" we would have to always return "ambiguous", as there are at least two separate publication with that name:
This is similar to journal names, where some journal names will always be ambiguous.
Versions
- same title, same authors, "vX" doi
- https://fatcat.wiki/release/search?q=%22Self-similarity+analysis+of+the+non-linear%22
Sometimes, we have a couple of preprint versions, plus a published version (with a slightly different title):
Almost same
- same author, maybe year
- different DOI
- title almost the same, e.g. MassIVE MSV000085583 - Aedes aegypti protein profile and proteome analysis
Duplication by different granularity
- https://fatcat.wiki/release/search?q=%22Volkshochschule+Leipzig%22 (20308)
- contains both yearly entries, as well as "DOI per page", https://fatcat.wiki/release/r734v367nza4tl37j6d74rfqo4; could group pages under "container" of yearly release?
- We have one container per release, currently.
Partial titles
A metadata title might differ from the full title.
Here, the release points to two PDFs, one is an article, the other a weekly report (summary).
Exact duplicates
Difference in Subtitle (invisible)
Subtitle is not visible metadata, all same, except for the DOI and the page number. Different.
The "what a difference a char makes" case
Typically a yearly report, or "part 1", "part 2", like this:
DOI differs and could hard code some patterns.
Published to two sites
An article can have multiple DOI, e.g. when republished by a site that gives out DOI, e.g. researchgate. Example:
https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijmsa.s.2015040201.15, https://doi.org/10.13140/rg.2.1.2398.3606
Probably many "10.13140" prefixed DOI has at least another DOI.
Some might be "rg-only", like this: https://fatcat.wiki/release/search?q=%22Marco+de+trabajo+basado+en+los+datos+enlazados+para%22
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