A Novel Dual-Graph Convolutional Network based Web Service Classification Framework

Automated service classification is the foundation for service discovery and service composition. Currently, many existing methods extracting features from functional description documents suffer the problem of data sparsity. However, beside functional description documents, the Web API ecosystem has accumulated a wealth of information that can be used to improve the accuracy of Web service (API) classification. At the moment, there is an absence of a unified way to combine functional description documents with other sources of information (e.g., attributes, interactions and external knowledge) accumulated in the Web API ecosystem for API classification. To address this issue, we present a dual-GCN framework that can effectively suppress the noise propagation of textual contents by distinguishing functional description documents and other sources of information (specifically Mashup-API co-invocation patterns by default in this paper) for API classification. This framework is extensible with the ability to include different sources of information accumulated in the Web API ecosystem. Comprehensive experiments on a real-world public dataset demonstrate that our proposed method can outperform various representative methods for API classification.