Will This Idea Spread Beyond Academia? Understanding Knowledge Transfer of Scientific Concepts across Text Corpora

no code implementations • Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 • Hancheng Cao, Mengjie Cheng, Zhepeng Cen, Daniel A. McFarland, Xiang Ren

We extract scientific concepts (i. e., phrases) from corpora as instantiations of "research ideas", create concept-level features as motivated by literature, and then follow the trajectories of over 450, 000 new concepts (emerged from 1995-2014) to identify factors that lead only a small proportion of these ideas to be used in inventions and drug trials.

Transfer Learning