A bipartite graph based social network splicing method for person name disambiguation

  • Authors:
  • Jintao Tang;Qin Lu;Ting Wang;Ji Wang;Wenjie Li

  • Affiliations:
  • National University of Defense Technology, ChangSha, China;Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong;National University of Defense Technology, ChangSha, China;National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, Changsha, China;Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The key issue of person name disambiguation is to discover different namesakes in massive web documents rather than simply cluster documents by using textual features. In this paper, we describe a novel person name disambiguation method based on social networks to effectively identify namesakes. The social network snippets in each document are extracted. Then, the namesakes are identified via splicing the social networks of each namesake by using the snippets as a bipartite graph. Experimental results show that our method achieves better result than the top performance of WePS-2 in identifying different namesakes.