  Hypertext documents, such as web pages and academic papers, are of great
importance in delivering information in our daily life. Although being
effective on plain documents, conventional text embedding methods suffer from
information loss if directly adapted to hyper-documents. In this paper, we
propose a general embedding approach for hyper-documents, namely, hyperdoc2vec,
along with four criteria characterizing necessary information that
hyper-document embedding models should preserve. Systematic comparisons are
conducted between hyperdoc2vec and several competitors on two tasks, i.e.,
paper classification and citation recommendation, in the academic paper domain.
Analyses and experiments both validate the superiority of hyperdoc2vec to other
models w.r.t. the four criteria.
