Smart Topic Miner (STM) is a web application which uses Semantic Web technologies to classify scholarly publications on the basis of Computer Science Ontology (CSO), a very large automatically generated ontology of research areas.
STM was developed to support the Springer Nature Computer Science editorial team in classifying proceedings in the LNCS family. It analyses in real time a set of publications provided by an editor and produces a structured set of research topics and a number of Springer Nature Classification tags, which best characterise the proceedings book. Indeed, if you regularly publish in the main Computer Science conferences, your work was probably already classified and indexed by using STM. **
During the classification of proceedings, editors are involved in different tasks and one of them is determining the list of related terms and categories. This is accomplished according to their own experience, like exploring titles and abstracts visually. However, this appears to be time-consuming as well as complex to perform. In addition, new emerging topics may not find their space while some other current topics could be considered still popular.
