PLF: A Publication List Web Page Finder for Researchers

Finding and keeping track of other researchers' publication lists is an essential activity for every researcher, because they often contain citations not found elsewhere and may provide access to information, such as slides and talks, which can help other researchers keep abreast of state-of- the-art knowledge and technology. There are many different ways to generate publication list web pages, and a researcher may have several different versions of a publication list on the Web because he holds different positions. So it is difficult to find the correct publication list web page from the top results retrieved from search engines, especially when we only know the name of the researcher. Very few works have addressed the problem. In this paper, we propose a system called the "publication list Web page finder" (PLF), which can automatically find the publication list Web pages for a given researcher's name. The PLF system is an automatic and language-independent system, and its main idea is that publication list Web pages often contain many citations about a specific researcher, so the system uses those citations as clues to find out publication list web pages. Our experimental results show that the PLF system outperforms other approaches, especially when a researcher has multiple publication list Web pages.