Can Multinomial Logistic Regression Predicts Research Group using Text Input?

Abstract

While submitting proposals in SISINTA, students often confuse or falsely submit their proposals to the less relevant or incorrect research group. There are 13 research groups for the students to choose from. We proposed a text classification method to help students find the best research group based on the title and/or abstract. The stages in this study include data collection, preprocessing data, classification using Logistic Regression, and evaluation of the results. Three scenarios in research group classification are based on 1) title only, 2) abstract only, and 3) title and abstract. Based on the experiments, research group classification using title-only input is the best overall. This scenario gets the most optimal results with accuracy, precision, recall, and f1-score successively at 63.68%, 64.91%, 63.68%, and 63.46%. This result is sufficient to help students find the best research group based on the text titles. In addition, lecturers can comment more elaborately since the proposals are relevant to the research group’s scope.