On Disambiguating Authors: Collaboration Network Reconstruction in a Bottom-up Manner

Author disambiguation arises when different authors share the same name, which is a critical task in digital libraries, such as DBLP, CiteULike, CiteSeerX, etc. While the state-of-the-art methods have developed various paper embedding-based methods performing in a top-down manner, they primarily focus on the ego-network of a target name and overlook the low-quality collaborative relations existed ...