Who's Who in Your Digital Collection: Developing a Tool for Name Disambiguation and Identity Resolution

Godby, Carol Jean; Hswe, Patricia; Jackson, Larry S.; Klavans, Judith; Ratinov, Lev; Roth, Dan; Cho, Hyoungtae

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Title

Who's Who in Your Digital Collection: Developing a Tool for Name Disambiguation and Identity Resolution

Author(s)

• Godby, Carol Jean
• Hswe, Patricia
• Jackson, Larry S.
• Klavans, Judith
• Ratinov, Lev
• Roth, Dan
• Cho, Hyoungtae

Issue Date

2009

Keyword(s)

• named entity recognition
• entity resolution
• metadata generation
• name disambiguation

Abstract

In the past twenty years, the problem space of automatically recognizing, extracting, classifying, and disambiguating named entities (e.g., the names of people, places, and organizations) from digitized text has received considerable attention in research produced by the library, computer science, and the computational linguistics communities. However, linking the output of these advances with the library community continues to be a challenge. This paper describes work being done by the University of Illinois, the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), and the University of Maryland to develop, evaluate and link Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Entity Resolution with tools used for search and access. Name identification and extraction tools, particularly when integrated with a resolution into an authority file (e.g., WorldCat Identities, Wikipedia, etc.), can enhance reliable subject access for a document collection, improving document discoverability by end-users.

Publisher

2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

Library of Congress / NDIIPP-2 A6075

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