Comparing Retrieval Methods for Academic Advisor Discovery: A Six-Method Study of 768 CS Faculty Profiles Across 9 US Universities

arXiv:2609.03901 · cs.IR, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-03 · Read on arXiv

cs.IR, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-03

Updated: 2026-09-03

Code: https://github.com/subedibiraj/academic-discovery

Terminology

• Embeddings — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation study — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Late Fusion — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pairwise Comparisons — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reciprocal Rank Fusion — 2× in this paper
• Semantic Similarity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Computational Biology — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hybrid Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Lexical Diversity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for Dimension Reduction
• A Few Brief Notes on DeepImpact, COIL, and a Conceptual Framework for Information Retrieval Techniques

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