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Whois? Deep Author Name Disambiguation Using Bibliographic Data

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Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2022)

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As the number of authors is increasing exponentially over years, the number of authors sharing the same names is increasing proportionally. This makes it challenging to assign newly published papers to their adequate authors. Therefore, Author Name Ambiguity (ANA) is considered a critical open problem in digital libraries. This paper proposes an Author Name Disambiguation (AND) approach that links author names to their real-world entities by leveraging their co-authors and domain of research. To this end, we use a collection from the DBLP repository that contains more than 5 million bibliographic records authored by around 2.6 million co-authors. Our approach first groups authors who share the same last names and same first name initials. The author within each group is identified by capturing the relation with his/her co-authors and area of research, which is represented by the titles of the validated publications of the corresponding author. To this end, we train a neural network model that learns from the representations of the co-authors and titles. We validated the effectiveness of our approach by conducting extensive experiments on a large dataset.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    It is estimated that about 114 million people share 300 common names.

  2. 2.

    In the DBLP database, there are 27 exact matches of ‘Chen Li’, 23 reverse matches and more than 1000 partial matches.

  3. 3.

    https://dblp.uni-trier.de/xml/ (July 2020).

  4. 4.

    https://dblp.org/faq/How+accurate+is+the+data+in+dblp.html.

  5. 5.

    https://whois.ai-research.net.

  6. 6.

    http://clgiles.ist.psu.edu/data/.

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  1. Institute for Web Science and Technologies (WeST), University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

    Zeyd Boukhers & Nagaraj Bahubali Asundi

  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, Sankt Augustin, Germany

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Boukhers, Z., Asundi, N.B. (2022). Whois? Deep Author Name Disambiguation Using Bibliographic Data. In: Silvello, G., et al. Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. TPDL 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13541. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16802-4_16

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