The Impact of Name-Matching and Blocking on Author Disambiguation

Abstract: In this work, we address the problem of blocking in the context of author name disambiguation. We describe a framework that formalizes different ways of name-matching to determine which names could potentially refer to the same author. We focus on name variations that follow from specifying a name with different completeness (i.e. full first name or only initial). We extend this framework by a simple way to define traditional, new and custom blocking schemes. Then, we evaluate different old and new schemes in the Web of Science. In this context we define and compare a new type of blocking schemes. Based on these results, we discuss the question whether name-matching can be used in blocking evaluation as a replacement of annotated author identifiers. Finally, we argue that blocking can have a strong impact on the application and evaluation of author disambiguation

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 803-812 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. 2018. S. 803-812. ISBN 978-1-4503-6014-2

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Informatik

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): New York
• (when): 2018
• Creator: Backes, Tobias
• Contributor: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Further information

• DOI: 10.1145/3269206.3271699
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019052611305540714324
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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