What is Information Filtering System

Automatic reference tracking involves systematic tracking of reference articles listed for a particular research paper by extracting the references of the input seed publication and further analyzing the relevance of the referred paper with respect to the seed paper. This tracking continues recursively with every reference paper being assumed as seed paper at every track level until the system finds any irrelevant (or far relevant) references deep within the reference tracks which does not help much in the understanding of the input seed research paper at hand. The relevance is analysed based on the keywords collected from the title and abstract of the referred article. The objective of the reference tracking system is to automatically list down closely relevant reference articles to aid the understanding of the seed paper thereby facilitating the literature survey of the aspiring researcher. This paper proposes the system design and evaluation of automatic reference tracking system discussing the observations obtained.