Authors semantic disambiguation on heterogeneous bibliographic sources

Abstract

Data ambiguity from various sources remains as a complex problem that affects services provided by digital libraries. From the point of view of integration of information from different sources, the challenge of author ambiguity is one of the most important, and there are numerous methods proposed to deal with this issue using different approaches. They generally work for some scenarios but they have important limitations, specially when dealing with heterogeneous sources. In this work, we review a group of existing methods and then propose a technique that combines some of them, also incorporating a measure of distance using semantic technologies to solve the ambiguity of authors while integrating bibliographic data from various sources. This technique has been successfully tested in disambiguating Ecuadorian authors from both internal sources (institutional repositories) and external digital libraries.