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Multi-strategic Approach for Author Name Disambiguation in Bibliography Repositories

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Abstract

The problem of author name ambiguity in digital bibliography repositories can compromise the integrity and reliability of data. There are several techniques available in the literature to solve the author name disambiguation problem. In this work, we present a multi-strategic approach for author name disambiguation in bibliography repositories applying comparison of strings with the Jaccard similarity coefficient, Levenshtein distance measure, and social network clustering technique. Information from the DBLP digital bibliography repository is used to compare disambiguation results to SCI-synergy, an online scientific social network analysis artifact. The proposed approach outperforms the baseline with a precision of 0.8867, recall of 1, and F-measure of 0.9399, considering a Brazilian graduate program case.

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Notes

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    https://dblp.uni-trier.de/.

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    https://baike.baidu.com.

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    http://www.cnki.net/.

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    https://dblp.org/search/publ/api.

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    https://neo4j.com/.

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    https://web.archive.org/web/20110728092533/http://arnetminer.org/.

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    https://academic.microsoft.com/home.

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Prof. Célia G. Ralha thanks the support received from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) for the research grant in Computer Science number 311301/2018-5.

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    Natan de Souza Rodrigues, Aurelio Ribeiro Costa, Lucas Correa Lemos & Célia Ghedini Ralha

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de Souza Rodrigues, N., Costa, A.R., Lemos, L.C., Ralha, C.G. (2021). Multi-strategic Approach for Author Name Disambiguation in Bibliography Repositories. In: Lossio-Ventura, J.A., Valverde-Rebaza, J.C., Díaz, E., Alatrista-Salas, H. (eds) Information Management and Big Data. SIMBig 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1410. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76228-5_5

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