OnCU system: Ontology-based category utility approach for author name disambiguation

Abstract

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 ontology-based category utility for author name disambiguation. Author name disambiguation determines the correct author from various candidate authors in the populated author ontology. Candidate authors are evaluated using proposed ontology-based category utility to resolve disambiguation. Ontology-based category utility has been proposed to exploit semantic information in ontology for semantic analysis for disambiguation. The ontology-based category utility increases the number of disambiguation by about 10% compared with that of category utility, and increases the overall amount of accuracy by around 98%. © 2008 ACM.