gambit -- An Open Source Name Disambiguation Tool for Version Control Systems
Software Engineering
2021-03-11 v1 Computers and Society
Social and Information Networks
Physics and Society
Abstract
Name disambiguation is a complex but highly relevant challenge whenever analysing real-world user data, such as data from version control systems. We propose gambit, a rule-based disambiguation tool that only relies on name and email information. We evaluate its performance against two commonly used algorithms with similar characteristics on manually disambiguated ground-truth data from the Gnome GTK project. Our results show that gambit significantly outperforms both algorithms, achieving an F1 score of 0.985.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2103.05666,
title = {gambit -- An Open Source Name Disambiguation Tool for Version Control Systems},
author = {Christoph Gote and Christian Zingg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.05666},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
MSR 2021, 10 pages, 2 figures