Title
Combining domain-specific heuristics for author name disambiguation
Abstract
Author name disambiguation has been one of the hardest problems faced by digital libraries since their early days. Historically, supervised solutions have empirically outperformed those based on heuristics, but with the burden of having to rely on manually labelled training sets for the learning process. Moreover, most supervised solutions just apply some type of generic machine learning solution and do not exploit specific knowledge about the problem. In this paper, we follow a similar reasoning, but in the opposite direction. Instead of extending an existing supervised solution, we propose a set of carefully designed heuristics and similarity functions and apply supervision only to optimize such parameters for each particular dataset. As our experiments show, the result is a very effective, efficient and practical author name disambiguation method that can be used in many different scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/JCDL.2014.6970165
Digital Libraries
Keywords
Field
DocType
data analysis,digital libraries,learning (artificial intelligence),author name disambiguation,dataset,digital libraries,domain-specific heuristics,generic machine learning solution,heuristics,similarity functions,supervised solutions,Name Disambiguation,Supervised Methods
Training set,Information retrieval,Author name,Computer science,Exploit,Heuristics,Digital library,Name disambiguation
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2575-7865
978-1-4799-5569-5
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.45
15
4