Detecting Research Frontiers Based on Twitter

doi:10.11925/infotech.2096-3467.2022.0111

Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery

2023, Vol. 7

Issue (1): 89-101 DOI: 10.11925/infotech.2096-3467.2022.0111

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Detecting Research Frontiers Based on Twitter

Wuxihong Jiangbulati^1,²,Wang Xiaomei¹(

),Chen Ting^1,^3,⁴

¹Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
²School of Public Policy and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
³National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
⁴Department of Library, Information and Archives Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

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Abstract

[Objective] This paper designs a Twitter-based method to identify emerging research topics, aiming to identify the latest developments of a specific discipline. [Methods] First, we analyzed the principles and practices of using Twitter to identify research topics. Then, we proposed a monitoring index system based on the influence of scholars and contents. Third, we conducted an empirical analysis in the field of natural language processing (NLP). [Results] The detection model is able to identify emerging research topics in NLP in a timely manner. Compared with reports on NLP status quo, 8 of the 13 research frontiers were successfully identified. [Limitations] Due to the open nature of social media, it is difficult to completely avoid subject-independent noise contents during dataset construction. [Conclusions] The proposed method is based on the scholarly UGC contents on Twitter, which is a feasible and effective way to detect the research frontiers of the discipline in a timely and forward-looking way.

Key words： Research Frontiers Social Media Twitter Domain Dataset Construction

Received: 13 February 2022 Published: 16 February 2023

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Corresponding Authors: Wang Xiaomei，ORCID：0000-0002-9895-1511，E-mail： wangxm@casisd.cn。

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Wuxihong Jiangbulati, Wang Xiaomei, Chen Ting. Detecting Research Frontiers Based on Twitter. Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery, 2023, 7(1): 89-101.

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A Twitter-based Framework for Identifying Research Frontiers

Twitter Research Frontiers Detecting Indicator System

Content Impact Indexes Judgment Matrix and Consistency Test Results

Scholars’ Influence Indexes Judgment Matrix and Consistency Test Results

Recognition Indexes Judgment Matrix and Consistency Test Results

Model for Detecting Research Frontiers

Monthly Number of Tweet Data Related to NLP

Statistics of the Element Scores of the Emerging Frontier Component Indicators

	发布日期	新兴研究内容	学者影响力分数	内容影响力分数	研究前沿分数
1	2020-7-13	This is mind blowing. With GPT-3， I built a layout generator where you just describe any layout you want， and it generates the JSX code for you.	2.09	3.48	2.97
2	2021-6-29	Meet GitHub Copilot - your AI pair programmer. Powered by OpenAI Codex： a large neural network that can code pretty well.	2.09	3.43	2.94
3	2021-12-8	The ongoing consolidation in AI is incredible. Thread： When I started decade ago vision， speech， natural language， reinforcement learning， etc. were completely separate； You couldn’t read papers across areas - the approaches were completely different， often not even ML based. Every ML model is converging into a Transformer that can basically be defined in 200 lines of PyTorch code. This is a great thread， Models designed to generate words （transformers） &model language （BERT） were reused in #AlphaFold to solve the protein folding problem， mapping a bunch of letters， to 3D coordinates.	2.29	2.80	2.61
4	2021-11-18	Our new AI system learned speech recognition in English with zero speech to text training data： researchers just gave it lots of audio， and it figured out what the words were. But it goes way beyond that - it learned Swahili too！ Wav2vec enables AI systems learn a language based on audio recordings with no matching text — as we’ve said before it’s a game changer for building speech AI that works in all languages， not just the dominant ones.	2.35	2.51	2.45
5	2021-9-17	New benchmark testing if models like GPT3 are truthful （= avoid generating false answers）. We find that models fail and they imitate human misconceptions. Larger models （with more params） do worse！	2.29	2.36	2.34
6	2020-8-3	Why You Should Do NLP Beyond English：7000+ languages are spoken around the world but NLP research has mostly focused on English. In this post， I give an overview of why you should work on languages other than English.	2.23	2.37	2.32
7	2021-1-6	We’ve developed two neural networks which have learned by associating text and images. CLIP maps images into categories described in text， and DALL-E creates new images. A step toward systems with deeper understanding of the world. @OpenAI is exploring the multimodal direction and discover how far we push the ability to learn vision from language supervision in massive data+compute scenarios！ CLIP： maps images to categories by taking class names as inputs； beats the original RN50 on ImageNet zero-shot（！）， while being far more robust on unusual images； DALL-E： text2im that works for a wide variety of sentences	2.01	2.54	2.35
8	2020-2-11	Microsoft researchers and engineers release Zero Redundancy Optimizer （ZeRO） and DeepSpeed library， a system able to train 100-billion-parameter deep learning models. Learn about this breakthrough and how it led to Turing Natural Language Generation.	2.11	2.37	2.28
9	2021-8-20	We use big language models to synthesize computer programs， execute programs， solve math problems， and dialog with humans to iteratively refine code.The models can solve 60% and 81% of the programming and math problems， respectively.	2.33	2.22	2.26
10	2021-9-10	We’re introducing GSLM， the first language model that breaks free completely of the dependence on text for training. This “textless NLP” approach learns to generate expressive speech using only raw audio recordings as input. There is lot more to natural languages than text： tone， accent， expression， prosody， timbre， pitch..... Textless NLP represents speech through a stream of discrete tokens， automatically learned through self-supervised learning， directly fed with raw speech waveform！ A new era.	2.35	2.19	2.25

Results of the Research Frontiers

	解读	发布者	非文献形式		解读	发布者	非文献形式
1	GPT-3在文本生成中的应用	Open AI研究员	√	11	宣布实验室的新研究重点：开发支持协作构建大型模型的工具	北卡罗来纳大学教授	√
2	代码生成：Codex首次被集成到GitHub Copilot中	Open AI研究员	√	12	以人类偏好替代自动化评测方法（如ROUGE、BLUE）为训练目标，用人类反馈作为奖励进行强化学习，在文本摘要任务中的表现全面超越人类	Open AI
3	人工智能模型在各子领域的通用泛化趋势	特斯拉人工智能总监	√	13	测试GPT-3、GPT-Neo在编程中的应用	Hugging Face研究员
4	Wav2vec-U：适用于多语言且无需语音转录数据的语音辨识模型	Meta 首席技术官		14	BioMed Explorer：NLP模型在生物领域的应用	Google AI （Research and Health）研究员	√
5	TruthfulQA：测试语言模型回答开放式问题的性能	牛津大学研究员		15	大型语言模型的现状及未来	斯坦福大学研究员
6	呼吁关注NLP模型在多语言中的应用	Google AI 研究员	√	16	nlp开源库：提供语料管理及测评功能	Hugging Face研究员	√
7	多模态文本与图像神经网络CLIP & DALL·E，用于文本到图像生成	Open AI		17	To：通过结合prompt+多任务学习，在下游多任务Zero-Shot性能测试中优于GPT-3	Big Science
8	ZeRO & DeepSpeed开源库：能够训练含1000亿个参数的深度学习模型的系统	Microsoft Research	√	18	大规模语言模型依然在进展之中，能力也在继续增强	DeepMind
9	用大型语言模型合成程序	Google Brain研究员		19	REALM：一种语言预训练模型的新范例，用知识检索器增强预训练语言模型	Google AI
10	新的语言模型训练方式GSLM，从语音开始训练，无需标签或大规模数据，让每个语言都能享受大规模语言模型的便利	Meta AI		20	呼吁重点关注潜在语言现象而非专注于算法和模型的提升	巴伊兰大学教授	√

Interpretation of the Content of Research Frontiers

The Matching of ML and NLP Research Frontiers with the Results Identified in This Paper

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