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Personal Name Resolution Crossover Documents by a Semantics-Based Approach

Xuan-Hieu PHAN, Le-Minh NGUYEN, Susumu HORIGUCHI

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Cross-document personal name resolution is the process of identifying whether or not a common personal name mentioned in different documents refers to the same individual. Most previous approaches usually rely on lexical matching such as the occurrence of common words surrounding the entity name to measure the similarity between documents, and then clusters the documents according to their referents. In spite of certain successes, measuring similarity based on lexical comparison sometimes ignores important linguistic phenomena at the semantic level such as synonym or paraphrase. This paper presents a semantics-based approach to the resolution of personal name crossover documents that can make the most of both lexical evidences and semantic clues. In our method, the similarity values between documents are determined by estimating the semantic relatedness between words. Further, the semantic labels attached to sentences allow us to highlight the common personal facts that are potentially available among documents. An evaluation on three web datasets demonstrates that our method achieves the better performance than the previous work.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E89-D No.2 pp.825-836
Publication Date
2006/02/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1093/ietisy/e89-d.2.825
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Natural Language Processing

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