Improving the performance of personal name disambiguation using web directories

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1546-1561

  Vu, Quang Minh ^a,b   Takasu, Atsuhiro ^b   Adachi, Jun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Document similarity; Knowledge base; Name disambiguation; Web directories; Web search

Indexed keywords

QUERY PROCESSING; SEARCH ENGINES;

DOCUMENT SIMILARITY; KNOWLEDGE BASE; NAME DISAMBIGUATION; WEB DIRECTORIES; WEB SEARCH;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 44449123718     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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