Reducing fragmentation in incremental author name disambiguation.

• Autor(a) principal: Espiridião, Luciano Vilas Boas
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Ferreira, Anderson Almeida, Laender, Alberto Henrique Frade, Gonçalves, Marcos André, Gomes, David Menotti, Tavares, Andréa Iabrudi, Assis, Guilherme Tavares de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFOP
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufop.br/handle/123456789/4305
• topic: Author name ambiguity; Bibliographic citation; Incremental disambiguation

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.