Thesis Supervisor Recommendation with Representative Content and Information Retrieval
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Background: In higher education in Indonesia, students are often required to complete a thesis under the supervision of one or more lecturers. Allocating a supervisor is not an easy task as the thesis topic should match a prospective supervisor’s field of expertise.
Objective: This study aims to develop a thesis supervisor recommender system with representative content and information retrieval. The system accepts a student thesis proposal and replies with a list of potential supervisors in a descending order based on the relevancy between the prospective supervisor’s academic publications and the proposal.
Methods: Unique to this, supervisor profiles are taken from previous academic publications. For scalability, the current research uses the information retrieval concept with a cosine similarity and a vector space model.
Results: According to the accuracy and mean average precision (MAP), grouping supervisor candidates based on their broad expertise is effective in matching a potential supervisor with a student. Lowercasing is effective in improving the accuracy. Considering only top ten most frequent words for each lecturer’s profile is useful for the MAP.
Conclusion:An arguably effective thesis supervisor recommender system with representative content and information retrieval is proposed.
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