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Off-the-shelf Semantic Author Name Disambiguation for Bibliographic Data Bases

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The demo presents a minimalist, off-the-shelf AND tool which provides a fundamental AND operation, the comparison of two publications with ambiguous authors, as an easily accessible HTTP interface. The tool implements this operation using standard AND functionality, but puts particular emphasis on advanced methods from natural language processing (NLP) for comparing publication title semantics.

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Notes

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    In contrast, the non-technical, organizational approaches of orcid.org or researcherid.com attempt to prevent referential uncertainty, by having authors use globally unique identifiers in their publications.

  2. 2.

    See e.g. dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/w/Wang:Wei.

  3. 3.

    github.com/SeerLabs/CiteSeerX.

  4. 4.

    github.com/askerlee/namedis.

  5. 5.

    E.g. github.com/tmikolov/word2vec, github.com/facebookresearch/fastText, github.com/allenai/allennlp/blob/master/tutorials/how_to/elmo.md.

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The work described in this paper was conducted in the project SCAD – Scalable Author Disambiguation, funded in part by the Leibniz Association (grant SAW-2015-LZI-2), and in part by the Klaus Tschira Foundation.

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Müller, MC., Bannister, A., Reitz, F. (2019). Off-the-shelf Semantic Author Name Disambiguation for Bibliographic Data Bases. In: Doucet, A., Isaac, A., Golub, K., Aalberg, T., Jatowt, A. (eds) Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge. TPDL 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11799. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30760-8_42

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