Author name disambiguation in MEDLINE

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Torvik, Vetle I ^a   Smalheiser, Neil R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bibliographic databases; Name disambiguation

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; AGGLOMERATIVE ALGORITHM; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; COMPUTING CLUSTERS; DATA INTEGRATION; E-MAIL ADDRESS; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDLINE; NAME DISAMBIGUATION; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; PRIOR PROBABILITY; SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TRAINING SETS; WEIGHTED-LEAST-SQUARES ALGORITHM;

COMPUTATION THEORY; DATA HANDLING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 73349139831     PISSN: 15564681     EISSN: 1556472X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1552303.1552304     Document Type: Article

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