
Hence it is clear that manual intervention based on human knowledge is required to perfect algorithmic results. With very common family names, typical in Asia, more liberal algorithms result in mistaken merges.Īutomatic normalization of author names is not exact. Many bibliographic records have only author initials. The more conservative the merging algorithms, the more bits of evidence are required before a merge is made, resulting in greater precision but lower recall of works for a given Author Profile.

keywords: names in common whose works address the same subject matter as determined from title and keywords, weigh toward being the same person.publication title: names in common whose works are published in same journal weighs toward the two names being the same person.affiliations: names in common with same affiliation weighs toward the two names being the same person.If so, this weighs towards the two names being the same person.



Coverage of other publishers generally starts in the mid 1980's. Coverage of ACM publications is comprehensive from the 1950's. Description: The Author Profile Page initially collects all the professional information known about authors from the publications record as known by the ACM bibliographic database, the Guide.
