Search Engine Driven Author Disambiguation

Yee Fan Tan, Min-Yen Kan and Dongwon Lee: Search Engine Driven Author Disambiguation

ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2006

Research Hypothesis

Hypothesis: Using external resources as in URL would help disambiguate author names with mixed citation

• Many factors to consider:

– Which external resources to use: URL, web page contents, affiliation, etc

– How to use: both internal and external? How to mix?

– How to apply external resources? Weighting?

• Preliminary study focuses on the case using URL and simple weighting