Author name ambiguity is one of the problems that decrease the quality and reliability of information retrieved from digital libraries. Existing methods have tried to solve this problem by predefining a feature set based on expert's knowledge for a specific dataset. In this paper, we propose a new approach which uses deep neural network to learn features automatically for solving author name ambiguity. Additionally, we propose the general system architecture for author name disambiguation on any dataset. We evaluate the proposed method on a dataset containing Vietnamese author names. The results show that this method significantly outperforms other methods that use predefined feature set. The proposed method achieves 99.31 in terms of accuracy. Prediction error rate decreases from 1.83 to 0.69 , i.e., it decreases by 1.14 , or 62.3 relatively compared with other methods that use predefined feature set Table 3.
Automatic integration of bibliographical data from various sources is a really critical task in the field of digital libraries. One of the most important challenges for this process is the author name disambiguation. In this paper, we applied supervised learning approach and proposed a set of features that can be used to assist training classifiers in disambiguating Vietnamese author names. In order to evaluate efficiency of the proposed features set, we did experiments on five supervised learning methods: Random Forest, Support Vector Machine (SVM), k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN), C4.5 (Decision Tree), Bayes. The experiment dataset collected from three online digital libraries such as Microsoft Academic Search, ACM Digital Library, IEEE Digital Library. Our experiments shown that kNN, Random Forest, C4.5 classifier outperform than the others. The average accuracy archived with kNN approximates 94.55 , random forest is 94.23 , C4.5 is 93.98 , SVM is 91.91 and Bayes is lowest with 81.56 . Summary, we archived the highest accuracy 98.39 for author name disambiguation problem with the proposed feature set in our experiments on the Vietnamese authors dataset.