@inproceedings{c4638170b0c34b90bb883f11e504a53e,
title = "How many different {"}john smiths{"}, and who are they?",
abstract = "In this work we propose three unsupervised measures to automatically identify the number of distinct entities a given ambiguous name refers to in a corpus. We experiment with 22 artificially created name conflations and observe that the measure (PK2) formulated as the ratio of two successive clustering criterion function values outperforms the other two measures. We also describe a method to assign a unique label to each discovered cluster so as to identify the underlying entity that it refers to.",
author = "Anagha Kulkarni and Ted Pedersen",
year = "2006",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "1577352815",
series = "Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence",
pages = "1885--1886",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 18th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, AAAI-06/IAAI-06",
note = "21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 18th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, AAAI-06/IAAI-06 ; Conference date: 16-07-2006 Through 20-07-2006",
}