Research Interests
Natural Language Processing (NLP), NLP for Yoruba and other resource-scarce languages, News Falsification in Digital Media, Text Analytics, Information Retrieval, Textual Pattern Analysis, Informetrics, Bibliometrics, Webometrics and Scientometrics
Publications
[1] Asubiaro T.V. and Badmus O.M. (2020). Collaboration clusters, interdisciplinarity, scope and subject classifications of Library and Information Science Research from Africa: An analysis of Web of Science Publications from 1996 to 2015. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000620907958
[2] Asubiaro, T. V. (2019). How Collaboration Type, Publication Place, Funding and Author’s role affect Citations Received by Publications from Africa: A Bibliometric study of LIS research from 1996 to 2015. Scientometrics 120(3) pp 1261–1287. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03157-1
[3] Rubin, V.L.; Brogly, C.; Conroy, N.; Chen, Y.; Cornwell, S. and Asubiaro, T. V. (2019). A News Verification Browser for the Detection of Clickbait, Satire and Falsified News. Journal of Open Source Software 4(35) 1208. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01208
[4] Asubiaro, Toluwase; Adegbola, Tunde; Mercer, Robert and Ajiferuke, Isola (2018). A Word-Level Language Identification Strategy for Resource-Scarce Languages. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 55(1), 19-28. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501004
[5] Asubiaro, Toluwase; Rubin, Victoria (2018). Comparing Features of Fabricated and Legitimate Political News in Digital Environments (2016-2017). Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 55(1), 747-750. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501100
[6] Asubiaro, Toluwase (2018). Research Collaboration Landscape of the University of Ibadan Biomedical Authors between 2006 and 2015. African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science, Vol. 28, No 1, (April 2018) 17-31
[7] Asubiaro, Toluwase (2017). An Assessment of the Cyber Presence of Academic Libraries in Nigeria. African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science, Vol. 27, No. 1, (April 2017) 65-76 online source
[8] Asubiaro, Toluwase (2014). Effects of Diacritics on Web Search Engines’ Performance for Retrieval of Yoruba Documents. Journal of Library and Information Studies 12:1 (June 2014) pp 1-18 online source
[9] Asubiaro, Toluwase (2013). Entropy-Based Generic Stopwords List for Yoruba Texts. International Journal of Computer and Information Technology. Vol. 2(5), Pp. 1065-1068
Presentations
[1] Asubiaro, Toluwase. (2020). Proposed Direct and Indirect Citation Weighting Methods Based on Citation Context Similarity. Graduate Student Symposium of the 33rd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ottawa, ON, Canada, May 12, 2020.
[2] Rubin V., Chen Y., Cornwell S., Asubiaro T., and Brogly C. (March, 2018). "Strategies That Sell: Revealing Deceptive and Misleading Practices in Digital Media". Faculty of Information and Media Studies Seminar Series, University of Western Ontario. Access online here or here
[3] Asubiaro, Toluwase Victor. (2017). User-Centered Approach to an Advanced Information Literacy Programme in the E. Latunde Odeku Medical Library Poster Presented at The Medical Library Association, 117th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Washington, May 26–31, 2017 online source
[4] Asubiaro, Toluwase Victor. (2017). Beyond Open Access: A Health Information Access Strategy for Africa Poster Presented at The Medical Library Association, 117th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Washington, May 26–31, 2017 online source
[5] Asubiaro, Toluwase Victor. (2017). Pattern of Co-authorship of Biomedical Researchers in the University of Ibadan Paper Presented at The Medical Library Association, 117th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Washington, May 26–31, 2017 Pages 116-117 online source
Awards
[1] Eugene Garfield Research Fellowship by Medical Library Association, for the year 2020
[2]Ontario Graduate Scholarships and the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarships in Science and Technology (OGS/QEII-GSST), 2019 summer term to 2020 winter term
[3] E. Stanley and Nadine M. Beacock Travel Bursary, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario. 2018
[4] Western Postgraduate Research Scholarship, University of Western Ontario, Canada. September 2016 - September 2020
[5] EBSCO/MLA Annual Meeting Grant/Award
Medical Library Association, Illinios USA. May 2017 online
