A Novel Method for Mining the Advisor-Student Relationships in Academic Social Network

Academic social network contains abundant knowledge about relationships among people or entities. Building the relationship between different entities correctly can help providing comprehensive services in the scientific research field. Unfortunately, some relationships, such as advisor-student relationship, are often hidden in academic social network, which are not explicitly categorized. Discovery of these relationships can benefit many valuable applications such as research community analysis. In this paper, a novel method based on Markov Logic Network is proposed to mine the advisor-student relationship in academic social network. Experimental results show that the proposed approach can find the advisor-student relationship effectively.