Reducing fragmentation in incremental author name disambiguation.
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2014
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Author name ambiguity is a hard problem that occurs when several authors publish articles with the same name or when a same author publishes their articles under different names. Traditionally, automatic disambiguation methods process the author names of all citation records in a repository. Aiming efficiency, incremental methods disambiguate author names only when new citation records are inserted into the repository. As a side effect, several citation records of a same author may be associated with different authors, aka, the fragmentation problem. To diminish this problem, we propose a new merge-oriented incremental method capable of reducing such side effect, without the need to apply a traditional disambiguation method on the whole repository. Our experimental evaluation shows that our method produces significant improvements when compared to an incremental baseline and is very competitive with batch-mode methods.
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Author name ambiguity, Bibliographic citation, Incremental disambiguation
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ESPERIDIÃO, L. V. B. et al. Reducing fragmentation in incremental author name disambiguation. Journal of Information and Data Management - JIDM, São Paulo, v. 5, n. 3, p. 293-307, out. 2014. Disponível em: <https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/jidm/article/view/286>. Acesso em: 21 jan. 2015.