A Probabilistic Similarity Metric for Medline Records: a Model for Author Name Disambiguation

Overview

Journal AMIA Annu Symp Proc

Specialty Medical Informatics

Date 2004 Jan 20

PMID 14728536

Citations 24

Authors

Vetle I Torvik

Marc Weeber

Don R Swanson

Neil R Smalheiser

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Abstract

We present a model for automatically generating training sets and estimating the probability that a pair of Medline records sharing a last and first name initial are authored by the same individual, based on shared title words, journal name, co-authors, medical subject headings, language, and affiliation, as well as distinctive features of the name itself (i.e., presence of middle initial, suffix, and prevalence in Medline).

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