Personal name identification in the practice of digital repositories

Xia, Jingfeng

doi:10.1108/00330330610681330

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“…Snyman and van Rensburg (2000) discuss the effort to standardize author names using a unique number, called INSAN. Several works in the literature discuss authority control and related contexts (Hickey & O'Neil, 2006;Tillett, 2004;Xia, 2006). Accordingly, one of the focus of our work is to propose solutions for the automated creation of authority files or the improvement of existing solutions.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A generic Web-based entity resolution framework

Pereira

Ribeiro-Neto

Ziviani

et al. 2011

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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Web data repositories usually contain references to thousands of real-world entities from multiple sources. It is not uncommon that multiple entities share the same label (polysemes) and that distinct label variations are associated with the same entity (synonyms), which frequently leads to ambiguous interpretations. Further, spelling variants, acronyms, abbreviated forms, and misspellings compound to worsen the problem. Solving this problem requires identifying which labels correspond to the same real-world entity, a process known as entity resolution. One approach to solve the entity resolution problem is to associate an authority identifier and a list of variant forms with each entity-a data structure known as an authority file. In this work, we propose a generic framework for implementing a method for generating authority files. Our method uses information from the Web to improve the quality of the authority file and, because of that, is referred to as WER-Web-based Entity Resolution. Our contribution here is threefold: (a) we discuss how to implement the WER framework, which is flexible and easy to adapt to new domains; (b) we run extended experimentation with our WER framework to show that it outperforms selected baselines; and (c) we compare the results of a specialized solution for author name resolution with those produced by the generic WER framework, and show that the WER results remain competitive.1. for each record do: (a) select one or more attributes and use them to compose a query, (b) submit the query to a search engine, and (c) collect the top m documents in the answer set; 2. parse the documents in the answer set and extract (Webinferred) attributes B j such as URLs, titles, texts of the documents, names, and acronyms used to refer to the entities; 3. using the original attributes A i and the Web-inferred attributes B j , cluster the entity records relative to the primary entity e pr , such that each cluster corresponds to a single real-world entity; 4. in each cluster, select an attribute value to be the canonical entity name, and output the respective entry to the authority file.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A generic Web-based entity resolution framework

Pereira

Ribeiro-Neto

Ziviani

et al. 2011

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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“…[4] proposed DISTINCT method. Some other researchers aimed at solving the name variant problem, like [7][32] [33] [34]. The problem is also called entity resolution.…”

Section: Entity Resolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Latent Topic Model for Complete Entity Resolution

Shu

Long

Meng

2009

2009 IEEE 25th International Conference on Data Engineering

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Abstract-In bibliographies like DBLP and Citeseer, there are three kinds of entity-name problems that need to be solved. First, multiple entities share one name, which is called the name sharing problem. Second, one entity has different names, which is called the name variant problem. Third, multiple entities share multiple names, which is called the name mixing problem. We aim to solve these problems based on one model in this paper. We call this task complete entity resolution. Different from previous work, our work use global information based on data with two types of information, words and author names. We propose a generative latent topic model that involves both author names and words -the LDA-dual model, by extending the LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) model. We also propose a method to obtain model parameters that is global information. Based on obtained model parameters, we propose two algorithms to solve the three problems mentioned above. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and great potential of the proposed model and algorithms.

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“…The process of creating authorized name records began with the card catalog and later transitioned to electronic files in MARC records (Xia 2006). In doing so, name authority moved from locally-controlled mechanisms in individual libraries to shared authority records that can be utilized nationally and internationally across libraries and organizations (Niu 2013).…”

Section: Related Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Name authority is increasingly important in large digital collections, such as ETDs: "It is a well-known fact that personal name variants can reduce the precision level of online searches for digital materials" (Xia 2006 pp. 1).…”

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Introducing name authority into an ETD collection

2014

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Purpose of this paperThe purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate a workflow for establishing name authority in uncontrolled collections. Design/methodology/approachWe developed a workflow incorporating command-line tools and tested it in our electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) collection. We narrowed the scope of the study to born-digital ETDs in the collection and to contributor names, including chairs and committee members. FindingsThis workflow can save staff time and allows for flexible implementation depending on staff numbers and skills as well as institutional needs. Originality/valueThis workflow could be used by other institutions with little or no modification, as it does not rely on specialized software or extensive expertise.

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Personal name identification in the practice of digital repositories

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

A generic Web-based entity resolution framework

A generic Web-based entity resolution framework

A Latent Topic Model for Complete Entity Resolution

Introducing name authority into an ETD collection

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