Galvez, Carmen and De-Moya-Anegón, Félix Approximate Personal Name-Matching Through Finite-State Graphs. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2007, vol. 53, n. 13. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]
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This article shows how finite-state methods can be employed in a new and different task: the conflation of personal name variants in standard forms. In bibliographic databases and citation index systems, variant forms create problems of inaccuracy that affect information retrieval, the quality of information from databases, and the citation statistics used for the evaluation of scientists' work. A number of approximate string matching techniques have been developed to validate variant forms, based on similarity and equivalence relations. We classify the personal name variants as nonvalid and valid forms. In establishing an equivalence relation between valid variants and the standard form of its equivalence class, we defend the application of finite-state transducers. The process of variant identification requires the elaboration of: (a) binary matrices and (b) finite-state graphs. This procedure was tested on samples of author names from bibliographic records, selected from the Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) databases. The evaluation involved calculating the measures of precision and recall, based on completeness and accuracy. The results demonstrate the usefulness of this approach, although it should be complemented with methods based on similarity relations for the recognition of spelling variants and misspellings.
Item type: | Journal article (Unpaginated) |
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Keywords: | Finite-State Transducers ; Natural Language Processing (NLP) ; Personal Names ; Normalization |
Subjects: | L. Information technology and library technology > LL. Automated language processing. |
Depositing user: | Carmen Galvez |
Date deposited: | 12 Oct 2007 |
Last modified: | 02 Oct 2014 12:09 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/10529 |
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