Fish-bone diagram of research issue: Gain a bird's-eye view on a specific research topic
JingHong Li, Huy Phan, Wen Gu, Koichi Ota, Shinobu Hasegawa
TL;DR
The paper tackles the difficulty novices face in surveying literature and grasping research fields due to reliance on keyword graphs and limited abstract content. It introduces a fish-bone diagram built from an issue ontology to provide a broad, causal bird's-eye view across multiple papers. The methodology defines issue types (Prelude, Improvable, Emphasize), annotates sentences, clusters preludes to form tasks, and constructs backbone, fine-bones, and child-bones via prompt engineering and clustering, using the S2orc/HotpotQA data with DistilBERT/SVM classification. Evaluation demonstrates readability and viability as a structured research-survey tool, with future work expanding the ontology to additional sections and incorporating novelty analysis.
Abstract
Novice researchers often face difficulties in understanding a multitude of academic papers and grasping the fundamentals of a new research field. To solve such problems, the knowledge graph supporting research survey is gradually being developed. Existing keyword-based knowledge graphs make it difficult for researchers to deeply understand abstract concepts. Meanwhile, novice researchers may find it difficult to use ChatGPT effectively for research surveys due to their limited understanding of the research field. Without the ability to ask proficient questions that align with key concepts, obtaining desired and accurate answers from this large language model (LLM) could be inefficient. This study aims to help novice researchers by providing a fish-bone diagram that includes causal relationships, offering an overview of the research topic. The diagram is constructed using the issue ontology from academic papers, and it offers a broad, highly generalized perspective of the research field, based on relevance and logical factors. Furthermore, we evaluate the strengths and improvable points of the fish-bone diagram derived from this study's development pattern, emphasizing its potential as a viable tool for supporting research survey.