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Two questions regarding practitioners' use of patent embeddings arise: (i) Does one fine-tuning recipe suffice for all downstream applications? (ii) Is fine-tuning on one patent landscape sufficient for downstream application on other…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Amirhossein Yousefiramandi , Ciaran Cooney

Author name disambiguation results are often evaluated by measures such as Cluster-F, K-metric, Pairwise-F, Splitting & Lumping Error, and B-cubed. Although these measures have distinctive evaluation schemes, this paper shows that they can…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Jinseok Kim

Name Entity Disambiguation is the Natural Language Processing task of identifying textual records corresponding to the same Named Entity, i.e. real-world entities represented as a list of attributes (names, places, organisations, etc.). In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Alessandro Basile , Riccardo Crupi , Michele Grasso , Alessandro Mercanti , Daniele Regoli , Simone Scarsi , Shuyi Yang , Andrea Cosentini

Entity resolution (record linkage, microclustering) systems are notoriously difficult to evaluate. Looking for a needle in a haystack, traditional evaluation methods use sophisticated, application-specific sampling schemes to find matching…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Olivier Binette , Youngsoo Baek , Siddharth Engineer , Christina Jones , Abel Dasylva , Jerome P. Reiter

Author name ambiguity decreases 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.…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Hung Nghiep Tran , Tin Huynh , Tien Do

Many thousands of patent applications arrive at patent offices around the world every day. One important subtask when a patent application is submitted is to assign one or more classification codes from the complex and hierarchical patent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Eleni Kamateri , Vasileios Stamatis , Konstantinos Diamantaras , Michail Salampasis

Author Name Disambiguation (AND) is the task of resolving which author mentions in a bibliographic database refer to the same real-world person, and is a critical ingredient of digital library applications such as search and citation…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Shivashankar Subramanian , Daniel King , Doug Downey , Sergey Feldman

Automatically locating named entities in natural language text - named entity recognition - is an important task in the biomedical domain. Many named entity mentions are ambiguous between several bioconcept types, however, causing text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Chih-Hsuan Wei , Kyubum Lee , Robert Leaman , Zhiyong Lu

The name disambiguation task partitions a collection of records pertaining to a given name, such that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the partitions and a group of people, all sharing that given name. Most existing solutions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Baichuan Zhang , Murat Dundar , Mohammad Al Hasan

Name disambiguation aims to identify unique authors with the same name. Existing name disambiguation methods always exploit author attributes to enhance disambiguation results. However, some discriminative author attributes (e.g., email and…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Qingyun Sun , Hao Peng , Jianxin Li , Senzhang Wang , Xiangyu Dong , Liangxuan Zhao , Philip S. Yu , Lifang He

When digitizing a print bilingual dictionary, whether via optical character recognition or manual entry, it is inevitable that errors are introduced into the electronic version that is created. We investigate automating the process of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Michael Bloodgood , Peng Ye , Paul Rodrigues , David Zajic , David Doermann

The network of patents connected by citations is an evolving graph, which provides a representation of the innovation process. A patent citing another implies that the cited patent reflects a piece of previously existing knowledge that the…

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The disambiguation of author names is an important and challenging task in bibliometrics. We propose an approach that relies on an external source of information for selecting and validating clusters of publications identified through an…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo , Nees Jan van Eck

Random forests are a machine learning method used to automatically classify datasets and consist of a multitude of decision trees. While these random forests often have higher performance and generalize better than a single decision tree,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Max Sondag , Christofer Meinecke , Dennis Collaris , Tatiana von Landesberger , Stef van den Elzen

Many patterns have been uncovered in complex systems through the application of concepts and methodologies of complex networks. Unfortunately, the validity and accuracy of the unveiled patterns are strongly dependent on the amount of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Thiago C. Silva , Diego R. Amancio

Adequately disambiguating author names in bibliometric databases is a precondition for conducting reliable analyses at the author level. In the case of bibliometric studies that include many researchers, it is not possible to disambiguate…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Alexander Tekles , Lutz Bornmann

Author Name Disambiguation (AND) is a long-standing challenge in bibliometrics and scientometrics, as name ambiguity undermines the accuracy of bibliographic databases and the reliability of research evaluation. This study addresses the…

Entity disambiguation, or mapping a phrase to its canonical representation in a knowledge base, is a fundamental step in many natural language processing applications. Existing techniques based on global ranking models fail to capture the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Tiep Mai , Bichen Shi , Patrick K. Nicholson , Deepak Ajwani , Alessandra Sala

We present a gradient-tree-boosting-based structured learning model for jointly disambiguating named entities in a document. Gradient tree boosting is a widely used machine learning algorithm that underlies many top-performing natural…

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