A New Approach for Computing the Matching Degree in the Paper-to-Reviewer Assignment Problem

Abstract

The Paper-to-Reviewer Assignment Problem is a prevalent and challenging problem within the scientific community and scientific conferences. The large number of reviewers and submitted papers, as well as constraints on reviewers’ loads and papers’ coverage needs, make difficult and very tedious for the committee chair to manually assign submitted papers to suitable reviewers. Any automation of this task must tackle three main issues: modeling reviewers’ and papers’ profiles, estimating the relevance between a paper and a reviewer and finally finding an appropriate assignment.In this paper, we are interested in the two first issues. We propose to build the reviewers profiles on the basis of both pedagogical and research documents, then a formula that takes into account both topics similarity and common references is proposed. Experimental results compared to ground-truth values extracted from ICA2IT’19 data show a good performance of this approach.