TY - JOUR AU - Esperidião, Luciano Vilas Boas AU - Ferreira, Anderson A. AU - Laender, Alberto H. F. AU - Gonçalves, Marcos André AU - Gomes, David Menotti AU - Tavares, Andrea Iabrudi AU - de Assis, Guilherme Tavares PY - 2014/10/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Reducing Fragmentation in Incremental Author Name Disambiguation JF - Journal of Information and Data Management JA - JIDM VL - 5 IS - 3 SE - SBBD Articles DO - 10.5753/jidm.2014.1545 UR - https://sol.sbc.org.br/journals/index.php/jidm/article/view/1545 SP - 293 AB - <p>Author name ambiguity is a hard problem that occurs when several authors publish articles with the same name or when a same author publishes their articles under different names. Traditionally, automatic disambiguation methods process the author names of all citation records in a repository. Aiming efficiency, incremental methods disambiguate author names only when new citation records are inserted into the repository. As a side effect, several citation records of a same author may be associated with different authors, aka, the fragmentation problem. To diminish this problem, we propose a new merge-oriented incremental method capable of reducing such side effect, without the need to apply a traditional disambiguation method on the whole repository. Our experimental evaluation shows that our method produces significant improvements when compared to an incremental baseline and is very competitive with batch-mode methods.</p> ER -