• Journal of Information Management
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.95-115
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• 2009

Author resolution is to disambiguate same-name author occurrences into real individuals. For this, pair-wise author similarities are computed for author name entities, and then clustering is performed. So far, many studies have employed hierarchical clustering techniques for author disambiguation. However, various hierarchical clustering methods have not been sufficiently investigated. This study covers an empirical evaluation and analysis of hierarchical clustering applied to Korean author resolution, using multiple distance functions such as Dice coefficient, Cosine similarity, Euclidean distance, Jaccard coefficient, Pearson correlation coefficient.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.47-62
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• 2011

While an ideal author graph should have its nodes to represent authors, automatically-generated author graphs mostly use author names as their nodes due to the difficulty of resolving author names into individuals. However, employing author names as nodes of author graphs merges namesakes, otherwise separate nodes in the author graph, into the same node, which may distort the characteristics of the author graph. This study proposes an algorithm which resolves author ambiguities based on co-authorship and then yields an author graph consisting of not author name nodes but author nodes. Scientific collaboration relationship this algorithm depends on tends to produce the clustering results which minimize the over-clustering error at the expense of the under-clustering error. In experiments, the algorithm is applied to the real citation records where Korean namesakes occur, and the results are discussed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.41-47
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• 2008

There exists a many-to-many mapping relationship between persons and their names. A person may have multiple names, and different persons may share the same name. These synonymous and homonymous names may severely deteriorate the recall and precision of the person search, respectively. This study addresses the characteristics of features for resolving homonymous author names appearing in citation data. As disambiguation features, previous works have employed citation-internal features such as co-authorship, titles of articles, titles of publications as well as citation-external features such as emails, affiliations, Web evidences. To the best of our knowledge, however, there has been no literature to deal with the influences of features on author disambiguation. This study analyzes the effect of individual features on author resolution using a large-scale test set for Korean.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.652-656
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• 2006

Bibliographic information retrieval systems require bibliographic data such as authors, organizations, source of publication to be uniquely identified using keys. In particular, when authors are represented simply as their names, users bear the burden of manually discriminating different users of the same name. Previous approaches to resolving the problem of same-name authors rely on bibliographic data such as co-author information, titles of articles, etc. However, these methods cannot handle the case of single author articles, or the case when articles do not have common terms in their titles. To complement the previous methods, this study introduces a classification-based approach using similarity between full-text of articles. Experiments using recent domestic proceedings showed that the proposed method has the potential to supplement the previous meta-data based approaches.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.16B no.3
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• pp.225-232
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• 2009

Author name disambiguation is essential for improving performance of document indexing, retrieval, and web search. Author name disambiguation resolves the conflict when multiple authors share the same name label. This paper introduces a novel approach which exploits ontologies and WordNet-based category utility for author name disambiguation. Our method utilizes author knowledge in the form of populated ontology that uses various types of properties: titles, abstracts and co-authors of papers and authors' affiliation. Author ontology has been constructed in the artificial intelligence and semantic web areas semi-automatically using OWL API and heuristics. Author name disambiguation determines the correct author from various candidate authors in the populated author ontology. Candidate authors are evaluated using proposed WordNet-based category utility to resolve disambiguation. Category utility is a tradeoff between intra-class similarity and inter-class dissimilarity of author instances, where author instances are described in terms of attribute-value pairs. WordNet-based category utility has been proposed to exploit concept information in WordNet for semantic analysis for disambiguation. Experiments using the WordNet-based category utility increase the number of disambiguation by about 10% compared with that of category utility, and increase the overall amount of accuracy by around 98%.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.167-186
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• 2011

Co-citation means that two or more studies are cited together by a later study. This paper deals with the relationship between co-citation and author disambiguation. Author disambiguation is to cluster same-name author instances into real-world individuals. Co-citation may influence author disambiguation in terms that two or more related research works performed by the same person may be co-cited by some later studies. This article describes automated steps to gather co-citation information from Google scholar, and proposes a new clustering algorithm to effectively integrate co-citation information with other author disambiguation features. Experiments showed that co-citation helps to improve the performance of author disambiguation.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.261-268
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• 2008

An author of a paper is represented as his/her personal name in a bibliographic record. However, the use of names to indicate authors may deteriorate recall and precision of paper and/or author search, since the same name can be shared by many different individuals and a person can write his/her name in different forms. To solve this problem, it is required to disambiguate same-name author names into different persons. As features for author resolution, previous studies have exploited bibliographic attributes such as co-authors, titles, publication information, etc. This study attempts to apply email addresses of authors to disambiguate author names. For this, we first handle the extraction of email addresses from full-text papers, and then evaluate and analyze the effect of email addresses on author resolution using a large-scale test set.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.27-39
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• 2008

In bibliographic data, the use of personal names to indicate authors makes it difficult to specify a particular author since there are numerous authors whose personal names are the same. Resolving same-name author instances into different individuals is called author resolution, which consists of two steps: calculating author similarities and then clustering same-name author instances into different person groups. Author similarities are computed from similarities of author-related bibliographic features such as coauthors, titles of papers, publication information, using supervised or unsupervised methods. Supervised approaches employ machine learning techniques to automatically learn the author similarity function from author-resolved training samples. So far however, a few machine learning methods have been investigated for author resolution. This paper provides a comparative evaluation of a variety of recent high-performing machine learning techniques on author disambiguation, and compares several methods of processing author disambiguation features such as coauthors and titles of papers.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.107-111
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• 2007

There exists a many-to-many mapping relationship between persons and their names. A person may have multiple names, and different persons may share the same name. These synonymous and homonymous names may severely deteriorate the recall and precision of the person search, respectively. This study addresses the characteristics of features for resolving homonymous author names appearing in citation data. As disambiguation features, previous works have employed citation-internal features such as co-authorship, titles of articles, titles of publications as well as citation-external features such as emails, affiliations, Web evidences. To the best of our knowledge, however, there has been no literature to deal with the influences of features on author disambiguation. This study analyzes the effect of individual features on author resolution using a large-scale test set for Korean.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06b
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• pp.10-12
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• 2006

동명이인 구별 문제는 최근 시맨틱 웹과 온톨로지에 대한 관심이 높아지면서 이슈로 부각되고 있다. 논문의 서지정보를 온톨로지로 구축하기 위해서는 이름이 같은 저자들이 동명이인인지 여부를 판단하는 것이 중요하다. 일반 문서에서와는 달리, 서지정보에서는 소속과 Email를 유용한 정보로 사용할 수 있으나 그것만으로는 충분치 못하며, 이를 보완하기 위한 한 방법으로 공저자 관계를 이용하는 것이 유용함을 살펴본다.