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Yee Fan
Tan, Min-Yen Kan and Dongwon Lee: Search Engine Driven Author Disambiguation
ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital
Libraries 2006
Introduction
•Bibliographic
digital libraries
–Contains a large number of
publication metadata records
–e.g. Citeseer, DBLP
–Commonly used to measure impact
of researchers on community
•Problem
–What happens when different
authors share the same name?